The Long Dream (New England Library Of Black Literature) - Softcover

Wright, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555534236 ISBN 13: 9781555534233

Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In a small town in Mississippi, a prosperous black mortician's business arrangements with police and politicians unravel as his son enters adulthood.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In the powerful tradition of Native Son, Richard Wright's last novel is a stirring story of racial prejudice in the South. "No honest reader can remain wholly unmoved."--Time

About the Author:

Richard Wright (1908-1960) was born on a plantation in Roxie, Mississippi. He lived in the South until 1927, when he moved to Chicago. He later resided in New York City, and died in Paris as an expatriate. Among his many works are Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and Lawd Today! Keneth Kinnamon is Ethel Pumphrey Stephens Professor of English at the University of Arkansas and book review editor of the African American Review. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Richard Yarborough, editor of the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1555534236
• ISBN 13: 9781555534233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400