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Invisible Man

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  1. (1952) A novel by African-American author Ralph Ellison. Set in the United States in the 1930s, it depicts a black man's struggle for identity. It won a National Book Award in 1953.


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Actor Claude Rains, star of The Invisible Man, lost 90 percent of the vision in his right eye and received permanent vocal-cord damage in a gas attack.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024

An Avengers-like team-up of Victorian pulp heroes like Captain Nemo and the Invisible Man, “Extraordinary Gentleman” ran for decades and even inspired a loosely based film adaptation in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

There are interesting parallels to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" throughout the album.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022

One of more than 20 off-cuts from the sessions, Face It Alone is much darker than tracks like I Want It All and The Invisible Man, which eventually made it on to The Miracle.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2022

Invisible boy led him to a book called Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and a bunch of posts discussing it, plus two movies titled The Invisible Man, one from 1933 and the other from 2020.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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