Lawd today / (Record no. 1185)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 7508797 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220314222210.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 720315s1963 nyu 000 1 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 63011769 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1555531598 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781555531591 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)263975 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | OCoD |
| Modifying agency | OCoLC |
| -- | ODaWU |
| -- | OCoLC |
| -- | NN |
| -- | DLC |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | n-us-il |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS 3545 |
| Item number | .W875 1963 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wright, Richard, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1908-1960. |
| Relator term | author |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3749 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Lawd today / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Richard Wright |
| 246 14 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Lawd today : |
| Remainder of title | A novel by Richard Wright |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Walker and Company, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c1963 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 189 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Commonplace -- Squirrel cage -- Rats' alley. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Written before Native Son, but originally published several years after Wright's death, Lawd Today! interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of one day in the life of a black Chicago postal clerk during the Depression." --From online |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Until the time of his death in 1960, Richard Wright 'was generally accounted the most gifted living American Negro writer". His most famous novels, Native Son, and Black Boy, had already gained a secure place as classics of Twentieth Century American fiction and all his work had become internationally famous. The posthumous publication of a new Richard Wright novel is, therefore and event of some literary significance. Lawd Today was written before the publication of Native Son had established Richard Wright as a major novelist. Although different in setting and treatment, Lawd Today displays the same harsh, unsentimental realism, the same fierce concern for the plight of the American Negro, as the later novel. Quite simply, 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 once, but before his nightmarish odyssey is done, the reader sees all too clearly that society has given Jake Jackson, like Bigger Thomas, no alternatives. Lawd Today is a brilliant and bitter novel. The recreation of Jake's sorded world is complete- Its ideas, its values, its economic and social realities, it superstitions and its lusts. Unfortunately, it is a world which with only superficial changes, continues to exist in many parts of present-day America." --From the dust jacket. |
| 520 4# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This item contains racialized language in the description that would be considered offensive today. |
| 541 ## - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE | |
| Source of acquisition | From the library of Roscoe and Oletta Proctor. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | African Americans |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5669 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5670 |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/lawdtoday00wrig">https://archive.org/details/lawdtoday00wrig</a> |
| Public note | Click here to access online |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) | |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Damaged | The Roscoe Proctor Collection | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library | General Stacks | 10/25/2021 | PS 3545 .W875 1963 | NPML21100035 | 10/25/2021 | 10/25/2021 | BOOKS | First interior page is torn in half. |