Native son / Richard Wright
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., c1968Description: xxxiv, 398 pages ; 18 cmISBN: 0060808551Subject(s): DEATH ROW INMATES | MURDERERS | TRIALS -- MURDER | FICTIONLOC classification: .W75N 1968Summary: 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 of 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.
Books - Fiction
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LRC - Annex | National University - Manila | Fiction | Fiction | FIC .W75N 1968 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | NULIB000009463 |
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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 of 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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