'Wright's unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart' James Baldwin...
'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true... Here are Richard Wright's stories of eight men - black men, living...
'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing......
