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Native Son (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Wright, Richard

 
9780060929800: Native Son (Perennial Classics)

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In the powerful classic novel that captures the poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that exist in American society, the negative forces of a white world close around Bigger Thomas, who discovers a distorted freedom in acts of violence and murder. Reprint.

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Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.

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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.

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