Native Son: Richard Wright - Softcover

Wright, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099282933 ISBN 13: 9780099282938

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2000

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Discover Richard Wright’s brutal and gripping masterpiece.

'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin

Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. Native Son shocked readers on its first publication in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.

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Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen and returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago, where in 1935 he began to work on the Federal Writers' Project. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. His other titles include his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war Richard Wright went to live in Paris with his wife and daughters, remaining there until his death in 1960.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0099282933
• ISBN 13: 9780099282938
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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