Paperback. Pub Date :2001-08-02 Pages: 624 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellisons superb portrait of a generation of black Americans. Invisible Man. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by John F. Callahan. as well as an introduction by the author. Ralph Ellisons blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible simply because people refuse to see me. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change. the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellisons invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says. In an extraordinary imaginative leap. he hit upon a single word for the different yet shared condition of African Americans...