The Black Ball

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.'

Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

• Author
• Ralph Ellison

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 64

• Series
• Penguin Modern

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-241-33922-0

• EAN
• 9780241339220

• Release date
• 2018