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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Winner of the National Book Award for fiction. . . Acclaimed by a 1965 Book Week poll of 200
prominent authors, critics, and editors as "the most distinguished single work published in the last twenty
years."

Unlike any novel you've ever read, this is a richly comic, deeply tragic, and profoundly
soul-searching story of one young Negro's baffling experiences on the road to self-discovery.
From the bizarre encounter with the white trustee that results in his expulsion from a Southern
college, to its powerful culmination in New York's Harlem, his story moves with a relentless drive: -- the
nightmarish job in a paint factory -- the bitter disillusionment with the "Brotherhood" and its policy of
betrayal -- the violent climax when screaming tensions are released in a terrifying race riot.
This brilliant, monumental novel is a triumph of story-telling. It reveals profound insight into every
man's struggle to find his true self.

"Tough, brutal, sensational. . . it blazes with authentic talent." -- New York Times

"A work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous
gusto." -- The Atlantic Monthly

"A stunning block-buster of a book that will floor and flabbergast some people, bedevil and intrigue
others, and keep everybody reading right through to its explosive end." -- Langston Hughes

"Ellison writes at a white heat, but a heat which he manipulates like a veteran." -- Chicago Sun-Times




TO IDA

Copyright, 1947, 1948, 1952, by Ralph Ellison

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