New York: Amistad / Warner Communications, 1988. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Octavo (24cm); 428pp. Publisher s dust jacket with $22.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in tan and black cloth with silver stamping to spine; tan endsheets. 16pp of black and white photos. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed; small tear forming at bottom right corner of front panel but no obstruction to text. Jacket verso shows some dampstaining and discoloration. Boards bumped with some discoloration throughout. Binding sound. Textblock smudged; endsheets and interior pages remain clean. Very Good. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on full title page. Inscription reads, "Love and best wishes to Betty / Sincerely, Margaret Walker Jackson / December 26, 1997.".

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius [Signed and Inscribed]

Publisher

Amistad / Warner Communications, New York

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0446710016

ISBN 13

9780446710015

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A friend and fellow writer offers a portrait of the late American novelist, discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works

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An angry and deeply ambivalent man emerges from this passionately committed profile of novelist-essayist Richard Wright (1908-1960). In Walker's estimation, the author of Native Son and Black Boy hated black women and treated the two white women he married sadistically. Self-hatred pushed Wright to conceive of himself as "a white American with a black skin," even as he plunged into Pan-Africanism, Marxism and Freud for an anchor to his fractured self. Walker ( Jubilee ) and Wright were friends in the 1930s when they both worked on the WPA Writers' Project in Chicago. Combining biography, criticism and memoir, this excellent, flesh-and-blood portrait gets closer to the inner man than any previous volume. The author's claim for Wright as a Southern Gothic writer as well as an Afro-American one is buttressed by her intense account of his formative years in rural Mississippi. She also limns his bohemian life in New York and Paris, where he wrote eight books, unjustly neglected today. Photos.
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