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Eight Men

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Wright's unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart," said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again. "Eight Men" presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: October 09, 1996

ISBN: 0060976810

ISBN 13: 9780060976811

Eight Men

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Wright's unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart," said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again. "Eight Men" presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: October 09, 1996

ISBN: 0060976810

ISBN 13: 9780060976811

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