Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)

Wright, Richard

ISBN 10: 0060929782 / ISBN 13: 9780060929787

Published by HarperCollins, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060929782
• ISBN 13: 9780060929787
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 14 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

In an eloquent and candid memoir, Richard Wright records his struggle against self-pity, social injustice, and ingrained racism as he grew to manhood in the Jim Crow South. Reprint.

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)