- African Americans, Communists, Communist parties, Racism
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.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Wright
- First published
- March 1993
- Pages
- 440
- Publisher
- Perennial (HarperCollins), Borgo Press, Perennial Library
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789997410542
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