Description
"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.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/08/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.52w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780061349164
ISBN10: 006134916X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American & Black | Mystery & Detective
- Fiction | Family Life | General