Summary
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 Times
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784876999 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784876992 |
| Author: | Richard Wright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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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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