{"product_id":"invisible-man-random-house-100","title":"(03\/30\/27 PREORDER) Invisible Man (Random House 100)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator chronicles his coming of age as a black man in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn celebration of Random House’s 100th anniversary, the publisher is reissuing this landmark publication as a hardcover edition featuring bold new cover art, a stunning paper-over-board design, and custom endpapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply tragic, richly comic, and profoundly soul-searching story, the narrator chronicles his life from growing up in the South, to college where he is expelled after an encounter with a white trustee, and finally the powerful culmination of his story in Harlem. Invisible Man is a brilliant and uncompromising look at the black man’s position in American society, and “a stunning blockbuster of a book that will floor and flabbergast some people, bedevil and intrigue others, and keep everybody reading right through to its explosive end\" (Langston Hughes).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the twentieth century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, James Joyce, and Dostoevsky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67983788474643,"sku":"9798217460038","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.monsterasbooks.com\/products\/invisible-man-random-house-100","provider":"Monstera's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}