‘One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century’ The Times ‘It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves’ Ralph Ellison’s blistering and impassioned…
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison’s blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. ‘I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.’ Defeated and embittered by a country…
