Book
Invisible man
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679601395
- ISBN: 0679601392
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Physical Description:
xxxiv, 572 p. ; 20 cm.
print - Edition: Modern Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1994, c1992.
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- 3 of 4 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Covington Branch | ELLIS R (Text) | 33126021907625 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | ELLIS R (Text) | 33126024996740 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/02/2024 |
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A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility - Random House, Inc.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time ⢠Nominated as one of Americaâs best-loved novels by PBSâs The Great American Read
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, 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 nameless narrator of the novel 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," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. 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. - Random House, Inc.
The questions, topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man . We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at--and talking about--a book that is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest American novels of the second half of this century.