{"product_id":"richard-wright-richard-wright-9781598536225","title":"Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son \/ Uncle Tom's Children \/ Black Boy \/ And More","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended them to be read.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in authoritative texts based on the author's original typescripts and proofs, is the Library of America's acclaimed edition of Richard Wright's major works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWright's first novel, \u003ci\u003eLawd Today!\u003c\/i\u003e, published posthumously in 1963 and here presented for the first time in its original form, interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the events of one day in the life of a black Chicago postal worker.\u003ci\u003e Uncle Tom's Children\u003c\/i\u003e first brought Wright to national attention. The characters in these five stories struggle to survive the cruelty of racism in the South, as Wright asks \"what quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWright's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e, exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cuts--including the replacement of an entire scene--that Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWright's wrenching memoir \u003ci\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, an eloquent account of his struggle to escape a life of poverty, ignorance and fear in his native South, was an immediate bestseller when it appeared in 1945. But Wright's complete autobiography, published for the first time in this volume as \u003ci\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e), is a far more complex and probing work, chronicaling his encounter with racism in the North, his apprenticeship as a writer, and his disillusionment with the Communist Party. Wright's 1953 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e appears here in a text that restores the many stylistic changes and long cuts made by his editors without his knowledge. When Cross Damon is mistakenly believed to have died in a subway accident, he seizes the opportunity to invent a new life for himself. The text here, based on Wright's final, corrected typescript, casts new light on his development of the style he called \"poetic realism.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoxed set contains \u003cb\u003eRichard Wright: Early Works\u003c\/b\u003e, 936 pp., and \u003cb\u003eRichard Wright: Later Works\u003c\/b\u003e, 887 pp., volumes #55 and #56 in the Library of America series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598536222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 2.80d","brand":"Richard Wright","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047876456703,"sku":"9781598536225","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd894585-d551-443d-9467-05bf5c1ee9f4.jpg?v=1684992660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-wright-richard-wright-9781598536225","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}