Invisible man /

Ellison, Ralph

Invisible man / Ralph Ellison - 2nd Vintage International ed - New York : Vintage International, 1995 - xxiii, 581 pages ; 21 cm

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1952

In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto

In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto

Young Adult

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African American men--Fiction

PS3555.L625 / I5 1995