Invisible Man

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times<BR><BR>'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'<BR><BR>Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of black Americans.<BR><BR>This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man, a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation.<BR><BR>With an Introduction by John F. Callahan<BR><BR>'Brilliant' Saul Bellow