![]() Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” - AudioFile His exceptional portrayals of the wide cast of characters, ranging from a poor Southern black farmer to Harlem hipsters, white tycoons, and black matriarchs make this audiobook especially vivid…Morton rises to every occasion…all is made real and memorable. Morton inhabits the novel’s unnamed narrator and draws the listener into his remarkable world from the first to the last sentence. The talented Joe Morton gives a virtuoso narration. “Invisible Man belongs on the shelf with the classical efforts man has made to chart the river Lethe from its mouth to its source.” - New York Times Saul Bellow, #1 New York Times bestselling author The best parts of the book are the most surrealistic those which work less well (for me) are the more naturalistic parts related to the Brotherhood, and the epilogue which seems to feel it has to do a summing up for the reader."Ī book of the very first order, a superb book. works very well and individual passages can be stunning. The "Candide" structure, gradual loss of innocence etc. Eliot’s The Waste Land, James Joyce, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York, becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood,” and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the invisible man he imagines himself to be. A milestone in American literature-a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. ![]()
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