Down by the Riverside: An unflinching novella of race and power in the American South, from the author of Native Son and Black Boy - Brossura

Wright, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1529986028 ISBN 13: 9781529986020

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2026

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Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-­slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1529986028
• ISBN 13: 9781529986020
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 96
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