Summary
Richard Wright’s memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.
‘A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars’ - Daily Telegraph
At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. It was in saloons, r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784876135 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784876135 |
| Author: | Richard Wright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex–slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers’ Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom’s Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.
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