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Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3509.L45 I5 1952
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellison, Ralph, author.
- Series:
- Signet book ; Y3814.
- A Signet book, Y3814
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Racism.
- United States.
- Racism--United States--Fiction.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 503 pages ; 18 cm.
- Distribution:
- 1953.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Signet Books : Published by the New American Library, [1953]
- Summary:
- The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. --From publisher's description.
- Notes:
- "First printing, July, 1953"--Back of title page.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Landmark Achievement, Winner, 1993
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: E. Magee, 1989.
- OCLC:
- 606630
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