Invisible Man - Hardcover

Ellison, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375507914 ISBN 13: 9780375507915

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

An African-American 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, in a new anniversary edition of the monumental, award-winning novel. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Ellison was born in Okalahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible Man won the National Book Award  and the Russwurm Award. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at many colleges including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities from 1970 through 1980. Ralph Ellison died in 1994.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375507914
• ISBN 13: 9780375507915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 439