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Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. JonesPublication Details
Book60th anniversary ed., 1st edHarperCollins2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3545.R815 Z96 2005 DUE 01-14-10 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. This new edition of the once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as “black boy.” 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.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Wright, Richard, — 1908-1960 — Childhood and youth
- Wright, Richard, — 1908-1960 — Homes and haunts — Mississippi
- African Americans — Mississippi — Social life and customs
- Authors, American — Homes and haunts — Mississippi
- Authors, American — 20th century — Biography
- African American authors — Biography
- Mississippi — Social conditions
- Mississippi — Biography
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- "The restored text established by the Library of America."
- "Originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers … The text as restored by the Library of America originally published in 1991"–T.p. verso
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- 0060834005
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