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Article: Creative 'sons: with powerful prose, male authors explore the challenges of Black America.(BOOKSHELF)(Richard Wright, Sidney Poitier, Hill Harper)
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- Ebony
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- June 1, 2008
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A FATHER'S LAW (Harper Perennial, $14.95) by literary giant Richard Wright, with a foreword by his daughter and literary executor Julia Wright, is the unfinished novel expatriate Wright was completing in Paris when he died of a heart attack at 52 in 1960. His daughter writes, "It comes from his guts and ends at the hero's 'breaking point.' It explores many themes favored by my father like guilt and innocence, the difficult relationship between the generations, the difficulty of being a Black policeman and father, the difficulty of being both those things and suspecting your own son is the murderer. It intertwines astonishingly modern themes for the ...
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