New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison\047s blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. \047I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.\047 Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the \047invisible man\047 retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground...