Invisible Man

Ellison, Ralph and Charles Johnson (Preface)

ISBN 10: 0679601392 / ISBN 13: 9780679601395

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 2007

About this Item

A beautiful unread copy of the classic with the original cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer. In beige boards and cloth with brown type. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. Nice glossy unclipped jacket.

Seller Inventory # LPB011597RE

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Man
• Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679601392
• ISBN 13: 9780679601395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel 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," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

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