Black Boy

$ 10.00

Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Signet 841
Year: 1951
Print: 1
Cover Price: $
Condition: Very Good 
Genre: Counter Culture
SKU: 30116056E
Cover Art: James Avati.
Comments: 

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.

Related Products