Native Son - (Perennial Classics) by Richard Wright (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of <em>Native Son.</em>" - Henry Louis Gates Jr.</strong><br/></p><p>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. <em>Native Son</em> 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.</p><p>Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard 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.</p><p>This edition--the restored text of <em>Native Son</em> established by the Library of America--also includes an essay by Wright titled, <em>How Bigger was Born</em>, <em> </em>along with notes on the text.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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. <strong>Native Son</strong> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"There have only been two books in my life that have made me cry: the first 50 pages of<em> Jane Eyre</em> and the last 50 of <em>Native </em>Son....Richard Wright's masterpiece is in the school of protest novel...<em>Native Son</em> taught me that it's all right to have passion within your work, that you don't need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction."--<strong>Gloria Naylor</strong><br><br>"A novel of tremendous power and beauty."--<strong><em>Newsweek</em></strong><br><br>"A powerfully blunt novel."--<strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong><br><br>"An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon's repose and to haunt the imagination."--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story."--<strong><em>Saturday Review</em></strong><br><br>"It's difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty."--<strong><em>New York Herald Tribune</em></strong><br><br>"The most powerful American novel to appear since <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em>. . . so overwhelming is its central drive, so gripping its mounting intensity."--<em><strong>New Yorker</strong></em><br>
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