- Audio CD
- Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (April 19 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0739322079
- ISBN-13: 978-0739322079
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.7 x 15 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,604,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma 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.
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A beautiful and moving reading by Joe Morton, Sep 6 2007
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Joe Morton's narration of Invisible Man is remarkable. He brings individual voices to dozens of characters. This was my first exposure to a great, great book and I am grateful that I heard it rather than read it. The impact of Morton's reading will stay with me for a long time.
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AWESOME READING, Mar 18 2009
By Antigone D. Kostas - Published on Amazon.com
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Mr. Morton should get an award for his reading! the different voices he uses, his pauses, the emotion rendered in his voice. quite remarkable. brings the material alive. i hope mr. morton gets the recognition he deserves.
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The Best Work of American Fiction I've Ever Read., Jun 22 2007
By Peter D. Gall "Author of Gall, My Beautiful I... - Published on Amazon.com
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And Joe Morton's performance is brilliant. The audio version is stronger than the written.This book was the inspiration for my first book.
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