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At 50 Years Old, A Classic Still Packs a Punch
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BOOKS At 50 Years Old, A Classic Still Packs a Punch Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Anchor Books, $10.95)
Irving Howe, the noted social and literary critic, once commented about Richard Wright's first novel, "the day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever." A comparable claim can be made for Chinua Achebe's debut, Things Fall Apart - a novel that has left its indelible imprint upon the way successive generations of readers have come to apprehend a key moment in African history.
When Things Fall Apart was published by Heinemann in 1958, Ghana had just achieved political independence in the preceding year; Nigeria would follow in 1960, along with the …
