Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679732761
- ISBN: 0679732764
- Physical Description: 429 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [1952]
- Copyright: ©1952
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 870L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.2 30 19790. |
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Subject: | African American men > Fiction. Racism > United States > Fiction. Literature, Modern > United States. |
Genre: | Fiction. African American. |
Available copies
- 18 of 19 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Cass County.
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- 0 current holds with 19 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville | YA ELL 1952 (Text) | 0002206016343 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F ELL 1995 (Text) | 0002200620181 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Invisible Man
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Summary
Invisible Man
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years He 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," before retreating amid violence and confusion. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land , James Joyce, and Dostoevsky.