Native son

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Richard Wright: Native son (1987, Perennial Library)

398 pages

English language

Published July 24, 1987 by Perennial Library.

ISBN:
978-0-06-080855-6
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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.

Also contained in: Early Works

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Subjects

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