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Richard Wright reader / edited by Ellen Wright and Michel Fabre ; notes by Michel Fabre.
LIBRA - Special PS3545.R815 A6 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 886 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- "A miniature panorama of the career of a writer whose immense talent was matched only by his humanity."--Cover.
- Contents:
- Nonfiction: Black boy (excerpt)
- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite
- Blueprint for Negro writing
- Letters: Richard Wright/Burton Rascoe
- Richard Wright/David L. Cohn
- Richard Wright/Antonio Frasconi
- Review: Wars I have seen (Gertrude Stein)
- There's always another cafe
- Black power (excerpt)
- Pagan Spain (excerpt)
- 12 million black voices
- Poetry: I have seen black hands
- Between the world and me
- Red clay blues
- The FB eye blues
- Haikus
- Fiction: Long black song
- Fire and cloud
- Lawd today (excerpt)
- Native son (excerpt)
- The man who lived underground
- The outsider (excerpt)
- Savage holiday (excerpt)
- Big black good man
- The long dream (excerpt).
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1978.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 877-882).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Richard Wright reader.
- ISBN:
- 0306807742
- 9780306807749
- OCLC:
- 35714619
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