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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wright, Wright Richard
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2008
• EAN: 9780061349164
• ISBN: 978-0-06-134916-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: P.S.; P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Family life fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: African American & Black / Mystery & Detective, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, LITERATURE: MYSTERY, FICTION: City Life, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to African American / Black American people, Literature / Classics, Literature / Mystery