Black Boy a Record of Childhood and Youth

By: Richard Wright

Richard Wright's novel Black Boy, written in 1944, is a nonfiction story about the chaotic ruined patchwork of personal history. The life of the main character and author of the book, Richard Wright, is filtered by a cyclical survivalism tied to the overarching theme of the oppressed. The entirety of Black Boy is probably about the inescapable stagnancy of being forever in a placeless psychological geography, while Wright is moved by his own character's will for self in the city of Chicago.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005SAFMHI
• Release Date: January 1945
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"