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

Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 60th anniversary ed., 1st edView all editions and formats
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This book is Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South. His training by his elders was strict and harsh to prepare him for the cruel "white world". His elders' resentment of those trying to escape their common misery made his future seem hopeless. In this book, the author describes his mental and emotional struggle to educate himself, which gave him a glimpse of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Richard Wright; Richard Wright
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Wright
ISBN: 0060834005 9780060834005
OCLC Number: 61652696
Notes: "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 originally published in 1991"--T.p. verso.
Description: x, 419 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Edward P. Jones --
Black Boy, Part 1 : Southern night ; Part 2 : The horror and the glory --
Chronology of the life of Richard Wright --
Note on the text.
Responsibility: Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. Jones.

Abstract:

This book is Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South. His training by his elders was strict and harsh to prepare him for the cruel "white world". His elders' resentment of those trying to escape their common misery made his future seem hopeless. In this book, the author describes his mental and emotional struggle to educate himself, which gave him a glimpse of life's possibilities and which led him to his triumphant decision to leave the South behind while still a teenager to live in Chicago and fulfill himself by becoming a writer.

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