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Black Boy
(Paperback, 2007)
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Author: Richard Wright
Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061130249
ISBN-13: 9780061130243
Apr 2007
Publisher: Perennial
419 pages
Anniversary
P.S.
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.
| Size | | Length: | 419 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"One rises from the reading of such a book with mixed thoughts. Richard Wright uses vigorous and straightforward English; often there is real beauty in his words even when they are mingled with sadism....Yet at the result one is baffled. Evidently if this is an actual record, bad as the world is, such concentrated meanness, filth and despair never completely filled it or any particular part of it. But if the book is meant to be a creative picture and a warning, even then, it misses its possible effectiveness becuase it is as a work of art so patently and terribly overdrawn."
Weekly Book Review - W. E. B. Du Bois (03/04/1945)
"In this poignant and disturbing book of one of the most gifted of America's younger writers turns from fiction to tell the story of his own life during the nineteen years he lived in the South. The book is poignant because Richard Wright as a child and adolescent was a highly sensitive individual subjected to a series of cruel and almost unbearable shocks. It is disturbing because one wonders how many similarly sensitive individuals have been crushed by the circumstances which did not crush Richard Wright."
New York Times Book Review - R.L. Duffus (03/04/1945)
"[A]bove all, in 'Black Boy', I found expressed, for the first time in my life, the sorrow, the rage, and the murderous bitterness which was eating up my life....His work was an immense liberation and revelation for me."
"Uncle Tom's Children" - essay - James Baldwin
"'Black Boy' is filled with blues-tempered echoes of railroad trains, the names of Southern towns and cities, estrangements, fights and flights, deaths and disappointments, charged with physical and spiritual hungers and pain. And like a blues sung by such an artist as Bessie Smith, its lyrical prose evokes the paradoxical, almost surreal image of a black boy singing lustily as he probes his own grievous wound....And while it is true that 'Black Boy' presents an almost unrelieved picture of a personality corrupted by brutal environment, it also presents those fresh, human responses brought to its world by the sensitive child."
Ellison
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1995 - $5.00 Save 88%
Paperback, 1998 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1969 - $2.70 Save 86%
Paperback, 1993 - $0.75 Save 89%
Book, 2003 - $1.99
Audio, 2005 - $19.99 Save 49%
Paperback, 2001 - $0.75 Save 84%
Hardcover, 1993 - $5.00 Save 78%
Paperback, 2008 - $4.94 Save 70%
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