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Invisible Man
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241970560
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $28.00

Invisible Man

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Paperback
24 Sept 2014
Paperback
28 Sept 2001
EBook
31 Mar 2016
Audiobook
21 Dec 2010
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New Penguin Essentials edition of this blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America.

'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 . . .
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241970560
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction, and eventually winning the National Book Award for Invisible Man. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities. Ellison died in 1994.
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