02311cam a2200397 a 4500 116896 116896 13175699 BJBSDDR 20230411090818.0 ta 030425r20031940nyu b 000 1 eng 2003051421 006053348X (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC eng n-us-il PS3545.R815 W952 2003 813/.52 21 Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. 784 Native son / by Richard Wright ; with an introduction, "How 'Bigger' was born," by the author ; afterword by John Reilly. Abridged ed. New York : Perennial, 2003. xxxiv, 398 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references. “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. Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) Fiction. African American men Fiction. Death row inmates Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Murderers Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. Psychological fiction. lcsh Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc041/2003051421.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2022-09-05 0 PS3545.R815 W952 2003 00000160134 2022-09-05 00:00:00 1 2022-09-05 BK