BLACK BOY

Richard Nathaniel Wright

ISBN 10: 0756979188 ISBN 13: 9780756979188

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1776

Synopsis

An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.

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Review:

"Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies" (New York Times)

"A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars" (Daily Telegraph)

"An angry chronicle of a bright black rebel growing up in the Jim Crow southlands: a landmark in the literature of Black America" (The Times)

Book Description:

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s sold more than half a million copies on first publication and is considered a classic of the genre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1776
• ISBN 10: 0756979188
• ISBN 13: 9780756979188
• Binding: Library Binding