Eight men : stories /

Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our society and his fascination with what he called "the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
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Online Access:Table of contents only

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