The outsider
by Richard Wright
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Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. At once brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.
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African Americans, Communists, Communist parties, Racism, Fiction, False personation, African American men, Alienation (Social psychology), Murderers, Race relations, Sources, Petroleum industry and trade, History, Literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), African americans, fiction, Fiction, psychologicalPlaces
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The Outsider (Perennial Library)
March 1993, Perennial (HarperCollins)
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0060812486 9780060812485
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