Invisible Man
$24.18
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2001
Summary
A superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, this novel established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the twentieth century.
Ralph Ellison’s blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible ‘simply because people refuse to see me’. Published in 1952 when American society was on the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison’s invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184426 |
| Author: | Ralph Ellison, John Callahan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century
One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century * Times *
A brilliant individual victory … proving that a truly heroic quality can exist among our contemporaries – Saul Bellow
A stunning block-buster of a book that will floor and flabbergast some people, bedevil and intrigue others, and keep everybody reading right through to its explosive end – Langston Hughes
Don’t try to write the Great American Novel, it has already been done … any US epic must address race, which remains the greatest single issue the country faces. – Paul Gambaccini * The Week *
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-94) was born in Oklahoma. In 1936 he went to New York, where he met the writers Langston Hughes and Richard Wright; shortly afterwards his stories and articles began to appear in magazines and journals. His debut novel, Invisible Man (1952), won the National Book Award and established Ellison as a major figure in twentieth-century fiction.
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