Black Boy
Richard Wright
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2007)
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#4063
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Autobiography
African Americans/ Mississippi/ Social Life And Customs, Authors, American/ 20th Century/ Biography, American Literature/ African American Authors, Race Relations, African Americans - Race Identity
Paperback 9780061130243
English
Wright’s once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him—whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” More than seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate.

One of the great American memoirs, Wright’s account is a deeply moving record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3545.R815 .Z96 2006
LoC Control Number 2007279724
Dewey 813.52
Cover Price $14.95
No. of Pages 448
Height x Width 7.8 x 5.3  inch
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