Outsider - Hardcover

Wright, Richard (1908-1960)

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ISBN 10: 9997410548 ISBN 13: 9789997410542

Publisher: New York Harper & Brothers, 1953

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Library stamp remains to front end-paper. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked, edge-worn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 405 pages; Description: 405 p. 22 cm. Subjects: African American men--Fiction. Alienation (Social psychology) . False personation. Communists. Murderers. Racism. Form/Genre: Psychological fiction.

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About the Author:

Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.

Synopsis:

Cross Damon, trapped within his own blackness, flees from Chicago's South Side to Harlem, where he joins the Communist Party.

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