Native Son (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Wright, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060929804 ISBN 13: 9780060929800

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Synopsis

In the powerful classic novel that captures the poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that exist in American society, the negative forces of a white world close around Bigger Thomas, who discovers a distorted freedom in acts of violence and murder. Reprint.

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Review:

"Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies." (New York Times)

"Richard Wright's Native Son is, in addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel" (David Mamet Guardian)

"Unsettling urban violence from the man who was Mosley's inspiration" (The Times)

"Native Son is the story of a young black man who kills two white women; and it was the first book - published in 1940 - to suggest that black Americans could actually get angry. When it came out, it beat The Grapes of Wrath in the best-seller lists" (Independent)

Book Description:

Richard Wright's brutal and gripping novel was a huge hit - selling at a rate of 2,000 copies a day - on first publication in 1940.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060929804
• ISBN 13: 9780060929800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528