Native Son (Perennial Classics)

Description

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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506449W)

First Sentence

BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.

Excerpt

BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.

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, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.

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Other Editions

• Native Son (Perennial Classics)Harper Perennial Modern Classics2005-08-02
• Native sonHarper & brothers1940-01-01
• Native sonGrosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with Harper & Brothers1940-01-01
• Native sonHarper1941-01-01
• Native sonHarper1941-01-01
• Native sonNew American Library1964-01-01