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Native son / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
LIBRA N PS3545.R815 N25 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character).
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Death row inmates--Fiction.
- Death row inmates.
- Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
- Trials (Murder).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Murderers--Fiction.
- Murderers.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 504 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Di 1 ban.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, ©1993, 2005.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Arnold Rampersad
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- How "Bigger" was born
- Chronology
- Notes on the texts
- Notes.
- Notes:
- "The restored text established by the Library of America."
- Some issue have "P.S." section with author biography andcritical notes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-504).
- ISBN:
- 9780061148507
- 0061148504
- 006083756X
- 9780060837563
- OCLC:
- 966021398
- Online:
- Publisher description
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