Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius [Signed and Inscribed]

Margaret Walker

ISBN 10: 0446710016 / ISBN 13: 9780446710015

Published by Amistad / Warner Communications, New York, 1988

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.". Seller Inventory # 46007

Synopsis:

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

Reviews: 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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Bibliographic Details

Title: Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius [Signed and ...
Publisher: Amistad / Warner Communications, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good +
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition.