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Invisible man [electronic resource] / Ralph Ellison.
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307743992
- ISBN: 0307743993
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 581 pages)
- Edition: 2nd Vintage International ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1952. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Target Audience Note: | 950 Lexile. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.2 30.0 19790. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | African American men > Fiction. Literature, Modern. African Americans. Race Relations. United States. African American men. |
| Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. |
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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.
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