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Native son,

Author: Richard Wright; Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Bros., 1940.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Native son.
New York, London, Harper & Bros., 1940
(OCoLC)654150786
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Wright; Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress)
ISBN: 9780060837563 006083756X
OCLC Number: 606483
Notes: "First edition."
Description: xi, 359 p. 21 cm.
Responsibility: by Richard Wright.

Abstract:

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, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.

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