02418cam a2200421 i 4500 91540868 TxAuBib 20110101120000.0 940408t19721952||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 72-10419 9780394717159 0394717155 (OCoLC)3691420 TxAuBib rda Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man [Print] / Ralph Ellison. Mass market paperback. New York : Vintage Books, 1972. ©1952. 569 pages ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York City, New York (United States), Harlem, New York City, New York (United States), Alabama (United States), The United States of America. First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be. As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century. 20110101. National Book Award for Fiction (1953.) African Americans Social conditions To 1964 Fiction. African Americans Fiction. African American men Fiction. Literature, Modern. Race relations Fiction. FICTION / African American / Urban. FICTION / Classics. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / African American & Black / General. TXTLL