This World Is not My Home

Charles Wright’s innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography brings new attention to the writer’s impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life.

Fictiunea inovatoare a lui Charles Wright iese in evidenta, oferind o viziune diferita asupra afro-americanilor marginalizati din epoca postbelica si folosind satira pentru a aduce libera influenta si umanitate personajelor din clasa muncitoare. Aceasta biografie critica aduce o noua atentie asupra operei impresionante a scriitorului, in contextul unei vieti salbatice, dar tulburi.