Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Native son / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. - First Perennial Classics edition - xxii, 504, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
"The restored text, established by the Library of America." Some releases bound by Paw Prints. ALA banned and challenged classics.
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.
006083756X 0061148504 1435293401 9780060837563 9780061148507 9781435293403
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)--Fiction
African American men--Fiction.
Death row inmates--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Murderers--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
PS3545.R815 / N25 2005
Native son / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. - First Perennial Classics edition - xxii, 504, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
"The restored text, established by the Library of America." Some releases bound by Paw Prints. ALA banned and challenged classics.
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.
006083756X 0061148504 1435293401 9780060837563 9780061148507 9781435293403
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)--Fiction
African American men--Fiction.
Death row inmates--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Murderers--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
PS3545.R815 / N25 2005