The outsider /

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

The outsider / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Maryemma Graham. - 1st Harper Perennial modern classics ed. - New York : Harper Perennial, 2008. - xxxi, 597, 38 p. : port. ; 21 cm.

"The restored text established by the Library of America."

Dread -- Dream -- Descent -- Despair -- Decision -- Chronology.

[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.



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African American men--Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.
False personation--Fiction.
Communists--Fiction.
Murderers--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.

PS 3545 .R815 / O87 2008