FTP, what is this 1952 novel, the best-known work by Ralph Ellison?
The opening chapter of this novel closes with the narrator dreaming that he and his father are at a circus where his father refuses to laugh at the clowns.  The narrator gets a scholarship after giving a speech to thunderous applause, despite the controversy over the words "social responsibility" and the blood he swallowed after Tatlock threw him blindfolded into a boxing ring with 9 other boys.  Its climax comes at a race riot in Harlem, prompting the unnamed narrator to live in the sewers, where he writes the book.  FTP, what is this 1952 novel, the best-known work by Ralph Ellison?
The opening chapter of this novel closes with the narrator dreaming that he and his father are at a circus where his father refuses to laugh at the clowns.  
Invisible Man