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Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
LIBRA - Rare PS3555.L625 I5 1952 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellison, Ralph.
- Series:
- Signet book ; Q2722.
- A Signet book ; Q2722
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- African Americans.
- Race relations.
- New York (State)--New York.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--Fiction.
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 503 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : New American Library, 1952.
- Summary:
- A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Random House, Inc.
- "A Signet Book Complete and Unabridged"--Cover.
- Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Twelfth Printing".
- OCLC:
- 27001188
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