Invisible Man
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Ellison, Ralph
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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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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Street Date:
09/29/2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307743992
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Ralph Ellison. (2010). Invisible Man. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Ralph Ellison. 2010. Invisible Man. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.

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Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.

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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.
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