Uncle Tom's Children
$30.57
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2021
Summary
The book that introduced Richard Wright to the world - a collection of novellas that show the American south in all of its dramatic violence and oppression.
“Wright’s unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart” - James Baldwin
Natural disasters, cold-blooded murders, political agitation - all haunt these dark, dramatic novellas set in an American Deep South still corrupted by its slave-owning past.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784876982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784876984 |
| Author: | Richard Wright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers’ Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom’s Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.
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