Black Boy

(American Hunger)

by Richard Wright

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.

Editions of Black Boy

ISBN

9780060929787

Binding/Format

Paperback

Publisher

Harpercollins

Date

1998

Price

$1.00

Used - Good

Publisher Notes

Wright's unforgettable and eloquent autobiography of growing up in the Jim Crow South offers an unsurpassed portrait of the struggles against the ingrained racism and poverty faced by African Americans.

Media 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."

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