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003    OCoLC 
005    20000919184234.0 
008    940628r19941992nyu           000 1 eng   
010       94176953 
020    9780679601395 
020    0679601392 
035    (OCoLC)30780333 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dHPL|dWaOLN 
049    HPLL 
050 00 PS3555.L625|bI5 1994 
082 00 813/.54|220 
099    Fic 
100 1  Ellison, Ralph. 
245 10 Invisible man /|cRalph Ellison ; preface by Charles 
       Johnson. 
250    Modern Library edition. 
264  1 New York :|bModern Library,|c1994. 
264  1 |c1992. 
300    xxxiv, 572 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    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. 
520    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. 
650  0 African Americans|xSocial conditions|yTo 1964|vFiction. 
650  0 African American men|vFiction. 
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