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Native son

Author: Richard Wright; Peter Francis James
Publisher: New York : HarperAudio, ℗2008.
Edition/Format:  Audiobook on CD : CD audio : Fiction : English : UnabridgedView all editions and formats
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Bigger Thomas, a 20 year-old black man, is uneducated, unsophisticated, and unemployed. When a wealthy family offers him a chauffeur's position, Bigger is torn between gratitude for the job and anger over his subservient status. On his first evening, the family's daughter orders Bigger to spend a drunken night on the town with her and a gentleman friend. By morning the young woman is dead. Native Son is a stark and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Audiobooks
Fiction
Compact discs
Sound recordings
Material Type: Fiction, Audio book, etc.
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Wright; Peter Francis James
ISBN: 9780061457838 0061457833
OCLC Number: 227033450
Notes: Unabridged.
Performer(s): Performed by Peter Francis James.
Description: 15 audio discs (17.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: Compact disc.
Contents: Fear --
Flight --
Fate.
Responsibility: by Richard Wright.

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Bigger Thomas, a 20 year-old black man, is uneducated, unsophisticated, and unemployed. When a wealthy family offers him a chauffeur's position, Bigger is torn between gratitude for the job and anger over his subservient status. On his first evening, the family's daughter orders Bigger to spend a drunken night on the town with her and a gentleman friend. By morning the young woman is dead. Native Son is a stark and troubling account of murder, guilt, and racial hatred.

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