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Condition: Good. First Edition. Includes Native Son, now an HBO original movie by Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Ashton Sanders.Native Son exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicagos South Side, captured the ...
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas , a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
- Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad
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Richard Wright. Follow. Native Son (First Edition) Hardcover – January 1, 1940. by Richard Wright (Author) 4.5 118 ratings. See all formats and editions. First Edition…Dust jacket shows signs of wear. Front, end sheet displays sticker from personal library. No hassle returns. 100% satisfaction guaranteed to delight.
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Mar 8, 2012 · 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
by Richard Wright (Author) 4.5 2,893 ratings. See all formats and editions. Richard Wright's powerful and bestselling masterpiece reflects the poverty and hopelessness of life in the inner city and what it means to be black in America. Print length.
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Jan 1, 2005 · 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, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to ...
- Richard Wright
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A difficult and important novel, Native Son draws on literary antecedents like Crime & Punishment to explore race and racism in America. Depicting the murder of a white woman by a black man, Wright’s novel exposed important questions about enduring and systemic oppression of African Americans “’The day Native Son appeared, American ...
