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Title: The Long Dream (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Richard Wright, Keneth Kinnamon ISBN: 1-55553-423-6 Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wright's Most Effective
Comment: "Native Son" was great, barring the party-line that marred the last third. "Black Boy" haunts. His existential stuff is first-rate. But.... But here is Mr. Wright's best. We find here the story of poor Fishbelly, whose father holds the highest position possible for the Mississippi oppressed at the time: undertaker. The events that overtake him strike the reader across the face as rudely as those in previous novels; the civilized are outraged. Read this in the name of liberty.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deserves More Acclaim!
Comment: The Long Dream is one of those forgotten novels by a great writer. But it shouldn't be. It's a mature novel and deals with the reality and futility of being a black man in the Jim Crow south. I think the other reviewer describes the story well, but I just want to add some weight to the reviews for a VERY hidden classic!
Rating: 5
Summary: Thought provoking book
Comment: Wow! What a book. The book was written so percisely that I felt that I was reading a true story. I felt that the characters were real people facing racism in the south during the 1940's. I read his first novel Native Son and loved it! I just happened across this book (The Long Dream) and decided to try it out. I'm so glad I did. Although this was a book of fiction, it was written in such a way that it made you believe that it was a true story. Fishbelly, the main character dealt with the inner struggle of hatred toward white people and people of his own race. He watched how his father bent his knees, dropped his shoulders and shuffle his feet when talking to white people. Fishbelly felt his father was coward for acting that way in front of whites, therefore, hating his father for acting so cowardly, and hating white people for having that kind of power over black people. His father tells him that "A black man's a dream, son, a dream that can't come true." Only later when Fishbelly was falsely accused of raping a white woman did he realize why his father behaved the way he did. The plot thickens at the turning of each page. This book is well worth taking the time to read, you won't regret it.
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Title: Eight Men : Short Stories by Richard A. Wright ISBN: 0060976810 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Rite of Passage by Richard Wright ISBN: 006447111X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Outsider by Richard A. Wright ISBN: 0060539259 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lawd Today! (The Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad ISBN: 1555531598 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright, Edwin Rosskam, United States Farm Security Administration ISBN: 1560254467 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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