Native Son
Edition: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780060837563
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Classics; Literary; Fiction / General
First sentence: BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
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 on 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.
--back cover
Notes: P.S. readers guide
USA