Outcasts and Desperados
Adam Shatz: Richard Wright’s Double Vision, 7 October 2021
The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright.
Library of America, 250 pp., £19.99, April 2021,978 1 59853 676 8 Show More
by Richard Wright.
Library of America, 250 pp., £19.99, April 2021,
“... also raised objections from the Book of the Month club. One member of the selection committee, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, was offended by the way Black Boy overlooked those white Americans who ‘have done what they could to lighten the dark stain of racial discrimination in our nation’. The second half of the book, about Wright’s often harrowing ... ”