The messenger /

In The Messenger (1963), Wright draws extensively on his life. Realistically narrated in the first person by Charles Stevenson -- a light-skinned African American newcomer to Manhattan from small-town Missouri -- the novel dramatizes the isolation and alienation of those who fall prey to America...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wright, Charles, 1932-2008 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus & Compnay, [1963]
Subjects:	African Americans > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. African Americans. New York (State) > New York. Fiction. Novels.