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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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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.
