Native Son
Language: English
1908-1960 African American African American men Afro-American men Bigger (Fictitious character) Bigger (Fictitious character) - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction Classics Criticism Death row inmates Fiction General Literary Literature - Classics Murderers Psychological Fiction Richard Thomas Thomas; Bigger (Fictitious character) Thomas; Bigger (Fictitious character) - Fiction Trials (Murder) Wright
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Sep 1, 1998
Description:
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, 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.