{"product_id":"invisible-man-9780739322079","title":"Invisible Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time  Ralph Elllisons Invisible Man is a monumental novel  one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story  in which many extraordinary things happen  some of them shocking and brutal  some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.  After a brief prologue  the story begins with a terrifying experience of the heros high school days  moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New Yorks Harlem  where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various  complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures  in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed--as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others.  Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negros anomalous position in American society.  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923895517237,"sku":"ByrdShop_0739322079","price":88.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780739322079.jpg?v=1794118337","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/invisible-man-9780739322079","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}