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Native son
- Title
- Native son / by Richard Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Harper & Bros., 1940.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Description
- xi, 359 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) > Fiction
- African American men > Fiction
- Death row inmates > Fiction
- Trials (Murder) > Fiction
- Murderers > Fiction
- African American men
- Death row inmates
- Murderers
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
- Trials (Murder)
- Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction
- Illinois > Chicago
- African American men Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) Fiction
- Death row inmates Fiction
- Murderers Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) Fiction
- Trials (Murder) Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Note
- "First edition."
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-4106, no. 3.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare Fic
- LCCN
- 40004862
- OCLC
- 606483
- Author
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Title
- Native son / by Richard Wright.
- Imprint
- New York ; London : Harper & Bros., 1940.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-4106, no. 3.
- Local Note
- LIBRARY HAS TWO COPIES IN THIS LOCATION.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Indexed Term
- African American men FictionChicago (Ill.) FictionDeath row inmates FictionMurderers FictionPsychological fictionThomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) FictionTrials (Murder) Fiction
- Added Author
- Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son. New York, London, Harper & Bros., 1940 (OCoLC)654150786
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare Fic