Invisible Man

Invisible ManBoth 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/14/1995
ISBN: 9780679732761
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/1995
New Yorker (The) 02/09/2009 pg. 108
Entertainment Weekly 03/01/2013 pg. 68
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 19790 / Invisible Man
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 30