| Title | : | A Father's Law |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Richard Wright |
| Release | : | 2009-10-06 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Family Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Anthologies, Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Mysteries |
| Size | : | 4806867 |
| “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. |
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