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Details
- Instance of
- literary work
- Publication date
- 1953, 14 April 1952
- Author
- Ralph Ellison
- Genre
- Bildungsroman, autobiographical novel, social novel, African American literature, science fiction
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
- characters
- Griffin
- country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- cover art by
- Edward McKnight Kauffer
- Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions)
- 813.54
- first line
- I am an invisible man.
- has characteristic
- debut novel
- has edition or translation
- Invisible Man, Invisible Man (1952 Random House edition)
- language of work or name
- English
- last line
- Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
- narrative location
- New York City, United States
- nominated for
- National Book Award for Fiction
- publisher
- Random House
- title
- Invisible Man
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Subject of
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- Efforts to Ban Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- About Invisible Man: Critical Responses from the Fifties through the Sixties
- Invisible Man: Sensation and Making Sense
- Biblical Riffs in and on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Invisible Man: Critical Responses from the Seventies through the Early Twenty-First Century
- Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man: Early Interviews
- Invisible Man: Anger, Action, and Art
- Invisible Man and the Mysteries of Reconstruction
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