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Author Ellison, Ralph.

Title Invisible man / Ralph Ellison ; preface by Charles Johnson.

Publication Info. New York : Modern Library, 1994.
1992.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F ELLISON, R. c.4  DUE 09-06-06 Assumed Lost
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F ELLISON, R.    Storage
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION ELLISON, RALPH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Adult Department  F ELLISON - FIORE CABINET    DUE 05-10-16 Billed
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION ELLISON    DUE 04-03-24
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  ELLISON, RALPH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC ELLISON, R    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F ELLISON, R.    DUE 04-18-24
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC ELLISON    Storage
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  ELLISON    Check Shelf

Edition Modern Library edition.
Description xxxiv, 572 pages ; 20 cm
Summary 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.
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--Product description.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780679601395
0679601392
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