The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

The Collected Novels of Charles Wright
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062966421

“Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times In this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as “malevolent, bitter, glittering”—a young, black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation includes a foreword by acclaimed poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, who calls Wright, “Richard Pryor on paper.” As fresh and poignant as when originally published in the sixties and seventies, The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to get Alarmed About form Charles Wright’s remarkable New York City trilogy. By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three autobiographical novels create a memorable portrait of a young, working-class, black intellectual—a man caught between the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village and the dregs of male prostitution and drug abuse. Wright’s fiction is searingly original in bringing to life a special time, a special place, and the remarkable story of a man living in two worlds. This updated edition shines a spotlight once again on this important writer—a writer whose work is so crucial to our times.

Caribou

Caribou
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374119023

A collection of poems that meditates on life and nature while exploring the author's restless pursuit of a divine reality.

Black Zodiac

Black Zodiac
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466877413

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else."

Processed Cheese

Processed Cheese
Author: Stephen Wright
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316126276

From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon. A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes—and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control. Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything—and nothing at all. Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.

Negative Blue

Negative Blue
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466877502

Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket, Silk handkerchief limp with dew, sleeves in a slow dance with the wind. And love will kill us-- Love, and the winds from under the earth that grind us to grain-out. --from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn" When Charles Wright published Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century." The first two of those trilogies were collected in Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (Chickamauga [1995], Black Zodiac [1997], and Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.

The World of the Ten Thousand Things

The World of the Ten Thousand Things
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1990-10-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374292930

Contains poems from The Southern Cross, The other side of the river, Zone journals, and Xionia.

The Last Kind Word

The Last Kind Word
Author: David Housewright
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125000960X

Millionaire and unlicensed P.I. Rushmore McKenzie agrees to go undercover to help the ATF track a cache of stolen gunsNafter all, what could possibly go wrong?