Native Son
By: With an introd.: How 'Bigger' was born, by the author.
Edition: printing (11)
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780060147624
Copyright date: 1940
Subjects: Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; African American men -- Fiction.; Death row inmates -- Fiction.; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.; Murderers -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: From the beginning, Bigger was doomed. He was a "nigger" on Chicago's South Side, surrounded by rats and rebels with nowhere to go, a "nigger" in a white man's world. He might have been up for some petty crime, but by chance it was for murder and rape. 

He killed the first girl in an unpremeditated moment of panic and was caught up by forces he could neither understand nor control. Murder led to a more brutal murder and Bigger at last felt alive—he had found in acts of violence the sense of manhood and freedom, (distorted as they were, which Bessie, with her whiskey, and his mother, with her religion, had not been able to give him. 

This classic novel is one of powerful emotions and naked suffering. It is an assault upon the white man and his society, in which Wright's rage and bitter- ness are compressed to a degree that forces us to experience the truth of what man does to man. 
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Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION: How "BIGGER" WAS BORN, by Richard Wright; title: BOOK ONE; title: BOOK Two; title: BOOK THREE