Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison

`It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves`

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.

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.