{"product_id":"black-boy-3","title":"Black Boy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlack Boy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Wright\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780062421050\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Perennial\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e448\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA special 75th\u003cbr\u003eanniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with\u003cbr\u003ea new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the\u003cbr\u003eauthor's grandson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e was both praised and condemned.\u003cbr\u003eOrville Prescott of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewrote that \"if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read\u003cbr\u003ethem maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding and a more true democracy.\" Yet from 1975 to 1978, \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e was banned in schools\u003cbr\u003ethroughout the United States for \"obscenity\" and \"instigating hatred between\u003cbr\u003ethe races.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWright's once controversial, now celebrated autobiography\u003cbr\u003emeasures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate\u003cbr\u003ewill it took to survive as a black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, \u003cbr\u003eand hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, \u003cbr\u003eand raged at those around him--whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and blacks resentful\u003cbr\u003eof anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different\u003cbr\u003eway of life, he may his way north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he\u003cbr\u003eforged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, Wright sits poised with\u003cbr\u003epencil in hand, determined to \"hurl words into this darkness and wait for an\u003cbr\u003eecho.\" Seventy-five year later, his words continue to reverberate. \"To read \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is to stare into the heart of\u003cbr\u003edarkness,\" John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. \"Not the dark heart Conrad\u003cbr\u003esearched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the great American memoirs, Wright's account is a\u003cbr\u003epoignant record of struggle and endurance--a seminal literary work that\u003cbr\u003eilluminates our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Black Boy | Richard Wright | Paperback | 9780062421050 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks C 1780653","offer_id":49948544958616,"sku":"1780653","price":12.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71Dmqw_tyfL.jpg?v=1789794932","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/black-boy-3","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}