Invisible Man

ISBN-13:	9780679732761
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/14/1995
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	9,919
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	870L (what's this?)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHe 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.Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks 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, James Joyce, and Dostoevsky.