The long dream
By: Richard Wright ; with a new foreword by Keneth Kinnamon.
Series: Northeastern library of Black literature
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Racism -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization and plot that dramatizes Richard Wright's themes of oppression, exploitation, corruption, and flight. It is the story of Fishbelly (called Fish), the son of Tyree Tucker, a prominent black mortician and owner of a brothel whose wealth and power were attained by forging business arrangements with corrupt white police officers and politicians.

The riveting narrative centers on the explosive and tragic events that shape and alter the relationship between Fish and his father."--BOOK JACKET.