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Wright Richard - Black Boy - Paperback
Wright Richard - Black Boy - Paperback
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Description: A special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that if enough such books are written if enough millions of people read them maybe someday in the fullness of time there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy. Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for obscenity and instigating hatred between the races. Wright's once controversial now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty hunger fear abuse and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi Wright lied stole and raged at those around him whites indifferent pitying or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life he headed north eventually arriving in Chicago where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy Wright sits poised with pencil in hand determined to hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo. More than seventy - five years later his words continue to reverberate. One of the great American memoirs Wright's account is a deeply moving record of struggle and endurance a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.
Title: Black Boy
Author(s): Wright Richard
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061443084
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/29/2008
Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
Description: A special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that if enough such books are written if enough millions of people read them maybe someday in the fullness of time there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy. Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for obscenity and instigating hatred between the races. Wright's once controversial now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty hunger fear abuse and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi Wright lied stole and raged at those around him whites indifferent pitying or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life he headed north eventually arriving in Chicago where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy Wright sits poised with pencil in hand determined to hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo. More than seventy - five years later his words continue to reverberate. One of the great American memoirs Wright's account is a deeply moving record of struggle and endurance a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.
Title: Black Boy
Author(s): Wright Richard
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061443084
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/29/2008
Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions