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Harper Perennial
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 006134916X
EAN: 9780061349164
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Never before published, the final work of one of
America's greatest writers 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 near the end of his life, it appears in
print for the first time, an important addition to this
American master's body of work, submitted by his daughter
and literary executor, Julia, who writes: It comes from his guts and ends at the hero's "breaking
point." It explores many themes favored by my father like
guilt and innocence, the difficult relationship between the
generations, the difficulty of being a black policeman and
father, the difficulty of being both those things and
suspecting that your own son is the murderer. It intertwines
astonishingly modern themes for a novel written in 1960. Prescient, raw, powerful, and fascinating, A Father's Law is
the final gift from a literary giant.
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