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. 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. Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Ralph Ellisons blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible. 'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves' 'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times
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