Invisible Man

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The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellisons superb portrait of a generation of black Americans Invisible Man". This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition

Includes:: an introduction by John F. Callahan as well as an introduction by the author. Ralph Ellisons blistering & impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible simply because people refuse to see me. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellisons invisible man
- from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot
- go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says In an extraordinary imaginative leap he hit upon a single word for the different yet shared condition of African Americans Americans & for that matter the human individual in the twentieth century & beyond. This edition

Includes:: Ralph Ellisons introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of " Invisible Man" a fascinating account of the novels seven-year gestation. Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-94) named for the poet Emerson was born in Oklahoma. At the age of nineteen he won a scholarship to study music at Booker T. Washingtons Tuskegee Institute. In 1936 he went to New York where he met the writers Langston Hughes & Richard Wright; shortly afterwards his stories & articles began to appear in magazines & journals. After the Second World War Ellison was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship allowing him to concentrate on the composition of " Invisible Man" (1952) which won the National Book Award & established Ellison as a major figure in twentieth-century fiction. If you enjoyed " Invisible Man" you might like E.L. Doctorows " The Book of Daniel" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics"."