The wig
By: Charles Wright ; with an introduction by Ishmael Reed.
Series: NEA heritage & preservation series
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: African American men -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Wig is the story of Lester Jefferson, a young man of great good will, whose repeated attempts to become a part of "The Great Society" are doomed in advance. Aided, thwarted, and confused by numerous, curious companions, Lester conducts his inevitable search for happiness in a series of absurdist misadventures that begin with the transformation of the hair on his head into burnished silken curls."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. With new introd.