Invisible Man (Unabridged) Invisible Man (Unabridged)

Invisible Man (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.

After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed--as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others.

Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position in American society.

GENRE
Classics
NARRATOR
JM
Joe Morton
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18:36
hr min
RELEASED
2010
21 December
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
946.6
MB

Customer Reviews

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Audio problem

Recording is far too quiet to be able to listen to on the move, even when headphones at full volume. Really disappointing

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