Invisible Man (read by Peter Francis James) - Ralph Ellison
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Literature
Invisible Man: A Novel By: Ralph Ellison Narrated by: Joe Morton Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins Release date: 12-21-10 Unabridged Audiobook Language: English Publisher: Random House Audio, Editorial reviews, An idealistic young man strives to make his way among the like-minded of his own Black community and the larger white world beyond only to experience cascading disillusionment in both. He is The Invisible Man, the protagonist of Ralph Ellisons masterpiece, electrifying today, and devastatingly so when published in 1953. A richly poetic and cinematic work carrying a searing social critique, the novel features a first-person narrative that seems written to be heard as much as read. And the actor reading to us here seems to have been born for the role; as the movie trailers say, Joe Morton is The Invisible Man., From his nameless and hidden existence in a Manhattan basement, our narrator leads us through the events leading to his identity or lack of one. A high school valedictorian down
