02067cam a2200349 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000220009504000180011704100080013504300120014305000270015508200160018210000340019824501270023225000170035926000340037630000280041050400410043852009160047965000520139565000350144765000320148265000300151465000240154465100290156865500330159785600870163013175699BJBSDDR20230411090818.0ta030425r20031940nyu      b    000 1 eng    a  2003051421  a006053348X (pbk.)  aDLCcDLCdDLC  aeng  an-us-il00aPS3545.R815bW952 200300a813/.522211 aWright, Richard, d1908-1960.10aNative son /cby Richard Wright ; with an introduction, "How 'Bigger' was born," by the author ; afterword by John Reilly.  aAbridged ed.  aNew York :bPerennial,c2003.  axxxiv, 398 p. ;c21 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  a“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. 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 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 be black in America. This abridged edition of Native Son reprints the original edition from 1940. It also includes an essay by Wright, How "Bigger" was Born, as well as an afterword by John Reilly. 0aThomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)xFiction. 0aAfrican American menvFiction. 0aDeath row inmatesvFiction. 0aTrials (Murder)vFiction. 0aMurderersvFiction. 0aChicago (Ill.)xFiction. 7aPsychological fiction.2lcsh423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc041/2003051421.html