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Eight Men

English

By (author): Richard Wright

'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

Hunted 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 182g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Mar 2021
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784876999

About 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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