EAN: 9780679732761

INVISIBLE MAN - RALPH ELLISON KARTONIERT (TB)

Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.   The
book's nameless narrator 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 to the
basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.   Originally published in 1952 as
the first novel by a then unknown author  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 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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