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Native Son by Wright, Richard

Native Son by Wright, Richard

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One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels

"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath." --The New Yorker

When it was first published in 1940, Native Son established Richard Wright as a literary star. In the decades since, Wright's masterpiece--hailed by Newsweek as "a novel of tremendous power and beauty"--has become a revered classic that remains as timely and relevant today as when it first appeared.

Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, this formidable work is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism, and hopelessness on the human spirit. "I wrote Native Son to show what manner of men and women our 'society of the majority' breeds, and my aim was to depict a character in terms of thw living tissue and texture of daily consciousness," Wright explained.

This edition of Native Son--the restored text established by the Library of America--is the novel as Wright intended it to be published. It also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.



Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780060837563

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5992 / Native Son (the Original 1940 Text)


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 08/01/2005 pg. 67
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2005 pg. 61
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