Native Son
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: First Perennial Classics edition.
Description: xxii, 504, 16 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Subjects:
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Murderers -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Murderers -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 700L
ISBN:
006083756X (pbk.)
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