![]() ![]() ![]() Invisible Man/Juneteenth is one of Barnes & Noble’s Collectible Editions classics. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Bliss’s history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. Juneteenth is the tale of Adam Sunraider who, as a young orphan named Bliss, was taken in by an itinerant preacher, Daddy Hickman, and raised to be a preacher like himself. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style that won the National Book Award in 1953. In Invisible Man the nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood,” and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. Together for the first time in a single volume: two classics of the modern African-American experience from Ralph Ellison. ![]()
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