Richard Wright: Later Works (Loa #56): Black Boy (American Hunger) / The Outsider

by Richard Wright

Book Overview

Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940450674
• ISBN13: 9780940450677
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 887 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.1"