A father's law
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- ISBN: 006134916X
- ISBN: 9780061349164
- Physical Description xiii, 268, 32 pages : illustrations
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York ; HarperCollins, [2008]
- Copyright ©2008
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General Note: | "Harper Perennial." "P.S."--Spine. "Introduction by Julia Wright"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-32, 2nd sequence). |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 15.50 |
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A Father's Law
"An intense, provocative, and vital crime story that excavates paradoxical dimensions of race, class, sexism, family bonds, and social obligation while seeking the deepest meaning of the law." -- Booklist Originally published posthumously by his daughter and literary executor Julia Wright, A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a six-week period prior to his death in Paris in 1960, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the writer's process as well as providing an important addition to Wright's body of work. In rough form, Wright expands the style of a crime thriller to grapple with themes of race, class, and generational conflicts as newly appointed police chief Ruddy Turner begins to suspect his own son, Tommy, a student at the University of Chicago, of a series of murders in Brentwood Park. Under pressure to solve the killings and prove himself, Turner spirals into an obsession that forces him to confront his ambivalent relationship with a son he struggles to understand. Prescient, raw, and powerful, A Father's Law is the final gift from a literary giant.