# The Black Ball

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- Book: [The Black Ball](https://www.bookquiver.com/ralph-ellison/the-black-ball) ([The Black Ball.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ralph-ellison/the-black-ball.md))
- Authors: [Ralph Ellison](https://www.bookquiver.com/ralph-ellison)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-923-7
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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.