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Who doesn’t love a bit of controversy, scandal, and the FBI?!?! Around 1944, Richard Wright wrote an autobiography containing two parts: the first covers his childhood as a black boy growing up in the South (of the United States) and the second part covers his time in Chicago and his foray into Commu Leggi tutto

Black Boy is the book that made me fall in love with reading. I was in Italy with my family on spring break and I was required to read Black Boy for my english class. This book pulled me in. I remember walking around Italy with my nose in the book, barely looking up. I made my step-dad stop in a boo Leggi tutto

I hesitated between 3 and 4 stars for Black Boy. I felt that it was similar in structure to Invisible Man by Ellison but the writing, in my opinion was inferior. Like Ellison, the novel starts with Wright's childhood in the South - deserted by his father and always hungry (the original title was Ame Leggi tutto

i’m in the minority (minority. heh heh.) in finding this book superior to ellison’s invisible man . it might not be as daring, might lack the touch of modernist irony, but sometimes ya gotta shove all that aside and recognize a great book for just being a great book. something ellison’s book just ain Leggi tutto

Here's Richard Wright going door to door in the 1920s Jim Crow South trying to sell his dog for a dollar because he's starving. A white lady offers him 97 cents and, feeling some distant surge of fury inside, he turns her down, goes home with his dog and his hunger. A few days later (view spoiler) [the dog gets run (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto