Publisher: HarperCollins

Copyright Date: 1953

Edition Date: 2008 Release Date: 01/10/23

Pages: xxxi, 597 pages

ISBN: 0-06-145017-0

ISBN 13: 978-0-06-145017-4

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Racism. Fiction.
Murderers. Fiction.
Communists. Fiction.
False personation. Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology). Fiction.
African American men. Fiction.

Language: English

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Reading Level: 9.0

Interest Level: 9+

From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem.

Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. Brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.