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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Paperback - 2007
by Wright, Richard; Wright, Malcolm [Afterword]; Wideman, John Edgar [Foreword];
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- Title Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
- Author Wright, Richard; Wright, Malcolm [Afterword]; Wideman, John Edgar [Foreword];
- Series P.S.
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York
- Date 2007-03-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0061130249-4-18906325
- ISBN 9780061130243 / 0061130249
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 950
- Library of Congress subjects Mississippi, Authors, American - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007279724
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
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First line
One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside.