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Richard Wright: Native son. (1966, Harper & Row)

398 pages

English language

Published July 24, 1966 by Harper & Row.

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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.

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37 editions

Subjects

  • Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • African American men -- Fiction.
  • Death row inmates -- Fiction.
  • Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
  • Murderers -- Fiction.
  • Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.