Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

1964 Edition

This great work of fiction, by a major contemporary author, is one of the most vital novels about American life ever written. - From front cover

The powerful, bestselling novel.

Winner of a National Book Award. 

Invisible Man is the blazing story of a young black man's experiences in the North and in the South, it is the odyssey of one man's search for hls own identity. It is an epic of modern life.

 

"A work of art. You are carried forward by an intensity rare in the fiction of any time or place. In the course of his  journey towards understanding; the protagonist meets nearly every significant variety of modern man. The minor characters are as vivid as the minor characters in Dickens." -Saturday Review 

"A resolutely honest, tormented, profoundly American book." -N.Y Times Book Review 

RALPH ELLISON-Shoeshine boy, hobo,  waiter. jazz musician, freelance photographer, audio-electronics hobbyist, and author of a first novel, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He majored in music at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, when he came to New York to study sculpture. He has written short stories, articles, reviews, and criticism.

Pages in unmarked condition. Cover has shelf wear to edges and corners. Spine has creasing and chipping at edges. Back cover and last page has small indent.