Savage holiday : a novel
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Savage holiday : a novel
（Banner Books）
University Press of Mississippi, c1994
- : pbk
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First published by Avon, 1954 ; Afterword copyright 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235)
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ISBN 9780878057498
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Wright's dazzling novel of murder and misadventure
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: pbk ISBN 9780878057504
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Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced by corporate intrigue into the long holiday of retirement, becomes enmeshed in a weekend of bizarre and bloody circumstances that reveal his troubled psyche and desperation. Naked and accidentally locked out of his apartment, he inadvertently causes a boy to fall to his death. Driven by guilt and by a compulsion to conceal his involvement, Fowler befriends the boy's mother. Yet his self-destructive rages to redeem himself lead to mayhem. This is Richard Wright's only published work with no black characters. He was unsure about how his readers would react to this bravely experimental novel. Shying away from the racial problem he depicted in his other works, he writes here a riveting study in psychological fiction. It deserves to be regarded anew as work from a master.
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