Native son, and, How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
- Author:
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Additional Titles:
- Native son and How "Bigger" was born
- Published:
- Cutchogue, NY : Buccaneer Books, [1993]
- Copyright Date:
- ©1993
- Edition:
- Restored ed.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 594 pages ; 22 cm
- Summary:
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960—Characters
- African American men—Fiction
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)—Fiction
- Death row inmates—Fiction
- Trials (Murder)—Fiction
- Murderers—Fiction
- African Americans—Social conditions—Fiction
- United States—Race relations—Fiction
- Crime and race—United States—Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 156849694X
- Note:
- "Published by arrangement with HarperCollins."--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 578).
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