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050	0	0	_aPS3545.R815 _bW952 2003
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100	1		_aWright, Richard, _d1908-1960. _9784
245	1	0	_aNative son / _cby Richard Wright ; with an introduction, "How 'Bigger' was born," by the author ; afterword by John Reilly.
250			_aAbridged ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPerennial, _c2003.
300			_axxxiv, 398 p. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_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.
650		0	_aThomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) _xFiction.
650		0	_aAfrican American men _vFiction.
650		0	_aDeath row inmates _vFiction.
650		0	_aTrials (Murder) _vFiction.
650		0	_aMurderers _vFiction.
651		0	_aChicago (Ill.) _xFiction.
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcsh
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc041/2003051421.html
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