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Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Wright |
ISBN: | 9780061148507 0061148504 |
OCLC Number: | 1230325346 |
Notes: | "The restored text, established by the Library of America." |
Description: | xxii, 504, 16 p. ; 21 cm. |
Responsibility: | Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. |
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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