Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)?
The hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has no name.
He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.
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What is the first line of Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel (1973)?
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