PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780241970560
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, extraordinary, Fiction, New Arrivals
- Author(s) Ralph Ellison
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Pages 608
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.1cm x 3.6cm x 18.1cm
- Weight 0.345 kg
product description
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.
'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'
Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .