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Invisible Man - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

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Paperback 608 Pages
Published: 02/08/2001
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Waterstones Says

One of the pivotal postwar American novels, Ellison's bravura debut chronicles the injustices and dismissals of the Black experience through the eyes of the eponymous individual.

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times

'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'

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 in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of black Americans.

This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man, a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation.

With an Introduction by John F. Callahan

'Brilliant' Saul Bellow

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141184425
Number of pages: 608
Weight: 416 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 25 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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