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All Things Considered - January 7, 2008

Also by Richard A. Wright:

A Father's Law, January 2008
Hardcover
Native Son, August 2005
Paperback (reprint)

Native Son
Richard A. Wright

Harper
August 2005
On Sale: August 2, 2005
544 pages
ISBN: 006083756X
EAN: 9780060837563
Paperback (reprint)
$14.95

Fiction

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.

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