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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

Synopsis:

Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic.

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ISBN:

9780679601395

Preface:

Johnson, Charles

Publisher:

Modern Library

Preface by:

Johnson, Charles

Preface:

Johnson, Charles

Author:

Ellison, Ralph Waldo

Author:

Ralph Ellison

Author:

Johnson, Charles

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Afro-americans

Subject:

African Americans

Subject:

Afro-Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction.

Subject:

African American men

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1994

Edition Number:

Modern Library ed.

Edition Description:

Modern Library

Series:

Modern Library of the World's Best Books

Series Volume:

TM 10-4510-206-14

Publication Date:

19940614

Binding:

Hardback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

624

Dimensions:

7.5 x 4.7 x 1.6 in 1.3 lb

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Product details 624 pages Modern Library - 2010-06-09 English 9780679601395 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Libri, Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic.