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Author:

Wright, Charles, 1932-2008, author.

Title:

The collected novels of Charles Wright / Charles Wright ; introduction by Ishmael Reed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xx, 387 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Young men--Fiction.
African American men--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Counterculture--Fiction.
African American men.
African Americans.
Counterculture.
Manners and customs.
Young men.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (State)--Harlem.--Harlem.
Fiction.
Novels.
Novels.

Other Authors:

Reed, Ishmael, 1938- writer of introduction.
Container of (work): Wright, Charles, 1932-2008. Messenger.
Container of (work): Wright, Charles, 1932-2008. Wig.
Container of (work): Wright, Charles, 1932-2008. Absolutely nothing to get alarmed about.

Other Titles:

Novels. Selections

Notes:

"First Harper Perennial edition published 1993; reissued in 2019."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Absolutely nothing to get alarmed about. The wig -- Absolutely nothing to get alarmed about.

Summary:

"By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three classic American novels create a memorable portrait of a young working-class intellectual from the South and his misadventures with hair straightening, partying with the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village, male prostitution, and drug abuse"-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

0062839608
9780062839602

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1114300877

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)