Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison: 38 (Penguin Essentials, 38) - Softcover

Ellison, Ralph

 
9780241970560: Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison: 38 (Penguin Essentials, 38)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241970563 ISBN 13: 9780241970560
Publisher: Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.

'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'

Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .

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About the Author

Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914. He studied music and in 1936 went to live in New York. He started contributing to the Federal Writers' Project (part of Roosevelt's New Deal) and soon his short stories and articles were published. After returning from war service in the Merchant Marines, he concentrated on his writing and, in 1952, his masterpiece Invisible Man was published, seven years after he started it. This established Ellison as a major literary figure. He died in 1994.

From the Back Cover

New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.

'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'

Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .

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Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0241970563
ISBN 13 
9780241970560
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
608

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ISBN 10:  0679732764 ISBN 13:  9780679732761
Publisher: Vintage Books, 1995
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