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Rite of Passage

Richard Wright

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.

GenresAfrican American teenage boysFictionGangsRunawaysAfrican AmericansHarlem (New York, N.Y.)

151 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers · ISBN 9780060234195

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • Rite of Passage · HarperCollins Publishers · 1994 · ISBN 9780060234195 This page
  • Rite of Passage · Harper Collins · 1995 · ISBN 9780064471114

French

  • Rite of passage · Gallimard · 1995 · ISBN 9782070586660

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