TY - BOOK AU - Ellison,Ralph TI - Invisible man SN - 9780679732761 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 1952/// CY - [New York] PB - [Penguin Random House] KW - Social problems KW - fiction KW - NGU-sh KW - American literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Novels N2 - The narrator of Invisible Man is a nameless young Black man who moves in a 20th-century United States where reality is surreal and who can survive only through pretense. Because the people he encounters “see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination,” he is effectively invisible -- provided by Britannica ER -