INVISIBLE MAN

ELLISON'S BLISTERING AND IMPASSIONED FIRST NOVEL, WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS AMERICAN NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A MAN WHO IS INVISIBLE 'SIMPLY BECAUSE PEOPLE REFUSE TO SEE ME'. YET HIS POWERFULLY DEPICTED ADVENTURES - FROM A TERRIFYING HARLEM RACE RIOT TO HIS EXPULSION FROM A SOUTHERN COLLEGE - GO FAR BEYOND THE STORY OF ONE MAN. THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS MILLIONS ARE EVOKED IN THIS SUPERB PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION OF BLACK AMERICANS.