{"product_id":"2940169263381","title":"Invisible Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Elllison's \u003cb\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying  experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern  Negro college and then to New York's 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.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInvisible Man \u003c\/b\u003eis not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization;  it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position  in American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161843122416,"sku":"2940169263381","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169263381_p0.jpg?v=1763677357","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169263381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}