Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth

Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth

Richard Wright, 1908-1960

Book - 2006

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

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Subjects
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.
Published
New York : HarperPerennial ModernClassics 2006.
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Wright, 1908-1960 (-)
Other Authors
Edward P. Jones (-)
Edition
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, 60th anniversary edition
Item Description
"With a foreward by Edward P. Jones"--Cover.
"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 was published in 1991 ... First HarperPerennial edition published 1993"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
xiv, 419, 14 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Audience
950L
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-419).
ISBN
9780061130243
9780061443084
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Wright's autobiography describes his childhood and teenage years in the brutally racist South, where, though he was forced to mask his pride in himself, ``It had never occurred to me that I was in any way an inferior being.''

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Review by Library Journal Review

First published in 1945, this American classic recounting Wright's upbringing in the Jim Crow South is back on audio.AAnn Kim (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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