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Title	:	The Outsider
Author	:	Richard Wright
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 672 pages
Published	:	July 29th 2003 by Harpperen (first published 1953)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. Literature. Race

The Outsider

Richard Wright

Paperback | Pages: 672 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 2004 Users | 97 Reviews

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"Wright presents a compelling story of a black 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 who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.

As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative."

In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad."

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Original Title:	The Outsider
ISBN:	0060539259 (ISBN13: 9780060539252)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Cross Damon, Lionel Lane

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Ratings: 4.16 From 2004 Users | 97 Reviews

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I must admit, I unknowingly stood unprepared as this book emotionally and essentially intruded upon me. I now feel an acute fear in realizing the damage. It will likely haunt me, or dictate any future understanding I have of myself, and may signify a definitive point in my everlasting development. Forgive me, as the following will not implicate the kind of perversity which this work played in my mind. I have to embrace it before you can. And this may never come to pass.History will undoubtedly

Richard Wright's "The Outsider" tells the story of Cross Damon, a black man living in Chicago around 1950 who, after a narrowly escaping death in a freak 'El' derailment, lets the world believe he is dead and leaves for New York City to live as a ghost, a non-entity, an outsider. But when he gets to NY he finds his past life's habits impossible to leave behind. Damon, an intellectual prone to obsessive thought and bouts of self-loathing, is borne immutably down the path he had tread his entire

apparently wright wanted to write his own "stranger", but he's no camus.

I wish it had ended differently. The thought processes shared were spellbinding for me because of the time period in which this book was written. It made me think about the true purpose of a person, and if, in the process of living, do you always maintain that there is more in store for this life, or is there a teetering back and forth between this and knowing that you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing? One thing I took away from this book that is timeless is that your choices

A shocking turn a quarter of the way through leads you barreling through the type of experience whose joy we all might seemingly idendtify with. Good Read.

Great book that not only deals with race, but also deals with man feeling free enough to behave however he wants without thinking about the consequences. Interesting how his character develops from a man trapped in his life, to a man completely free and then back towards a life where his actions have effects on everything and everyone else around him. I would recommend this book.

I enjoyed this book. The first part has an amazing tension that is very driving and admirable and makes me want to write heavily-plotted novels. Toward the end, the novel becomes a little bogged down in the specifics of ideas/philosophies/etc... which is okay but sometimes I felt like I already understood much of it from the first part and that it was only there to make sure I got it just in case I happened to be sort of dense. But that was okay. It's still good.