6355X1 Third Printing. Walker and Co., NY: 1963. 189 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. Libarary discard. Posthumously published, Lawd Today was written before the publication of Native Son had established Richard Wright a a major novelist. Although different in setting and treatment, it displays the same harsh, unsentimental realism, the same fierce concern for the plight of the American Negro, as the later novel. Lawd Today traces a single heartbreaking day in the life of Jake Jackson, a postal clerk in depression-ridden Chicago. Jake is not an admirable man, not even a pleasant one, but before his nightmarish odyssey is done, the reader sees all too clearly that society has given Jake Jackson, like Bigger Thomas, no alternative. $90.00USD
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