Black Boy Paperback - 2008
by Richard Wright
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
Celebrating the centennial of Wright's birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.
Description
Details
- Title Black Boy
- Author Richard Wright
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2008
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061443085I3N10
- ISBN 9780061443084 / 0061443085
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (20.83 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
- Reading level 950
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Mississippi, Authors, American - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about 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.