Native Son
By: Richard Wright.
Edition: 1st Perennial Classics edition (8)
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780060929800
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: African American men -- Fiction; Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance. it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s. Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
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Notes: US/CAN