Wright, Richard
Native son Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. - 1st Perennial Classics ed. - New York Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2005 - xxii, 504, 16 p. 21 cm.
"The restored text, established by the Library of America."
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 (reissue (pbk.) 9780060837563 (reissue (pbk.)
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
African American men
Death row inmates
Trials (Murder)
Murderers
Chicago (Ill.)
Wri 2
Native son Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. - 1st Perennial Classics ed. - New York Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2005 - xxii, 504, 16 p. 21 cm.
"The restored text, established by the Library of America."
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 (reissue (pbk.) 9780060837563 (reissue (pbk.)
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
African American men
Death row inmates
Trials (Murder)
Murderers
Chicago (Ill.)
Wri 2