![]() ![]() ![]() It was also a runaway best-selller, selling a quarter million copies within three weeks. Wright's text was expurgated for publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club (removing a scene of movie-theater masturbation), but it was nevertheless one of the most frequently challenged books in public libraries for the full fifty years even before the reconstituted text was finally published. brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture" (Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons," in Dissent, Autumn 1963). No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies. "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.įirst edition, in first state binding and dust jacket. ![]()
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