Eight Men

Eight Men
Richard Wright
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
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9781784876999
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A collection of eight stories that explore the lives of black men in America in the mid-1940s and -50s, Richard Wright' s Eight Men is a perfect introduction to one of the most important voices of the 20th century' All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true. . . This is fine, sound, good, honorable writing rich with insight and understanding, even when occasionally twisted by sorrow' New York TimesHunted by the police for a crime he didn' t commit, a man turns to the sewers and a life underground. Struggling to get work, another turns to wearing his wife' s clothes in a desperate last attempt. Finding himself the object of derision, yet another man buys a gun only to discover its true power. Here are Richard Wright' s stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the white world around them. As suspenseful as they are excoriating, they stand alongside Wright' s novels as some of the most powerful depictions of black America in the twentieth century.
Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen and returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago, where in 1935 he began to work on the Federal Writers' Project. He published Uncle Tom' s Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. His other titles include his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war Richard Wright went to live in Paris with his wife and daughters, remaining there until his death in 1960.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784876999
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 182g
Pages: 224

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