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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

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Invisible Man won the National Book Award and was a 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. 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. 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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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9780307743992
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Racial identity and invisibilityComing of ageRace relations in America

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