EAN: 9781784876135

BLACK BOY - RICHARD WRIGHT KARTONIERT (TB)

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  railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life  about fear  hunger
and hatred  while his mother's long illness taught him about suffering. In a world of white
hostility and subjugation it would be his love of books and pursuit of knowledge that would
propel him to follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.A chronicle of coming of
age under the racial prejudices of the American south  as much the story of a writer finding
his voice  Black Boy remains one of the great  impassioned memoirs of the twentieth century.

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