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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 . . . 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 . . .Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780241970560
eBay Product ID (ePID)207622289
Product Key Features
Book TitleInvisible Man
AuthorRalph Ellison
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Stories, Books
Publication Year2014
Dimensions
Item Height181mm
Item Width111mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRalph Ellison
Series TitlePenguin Essentials
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom