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- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781784876135
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Black Boy
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- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781784876135
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies
New York Times
A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars
Daily Telegraph