TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Richard. TI - Native son SN - 0060808551 AV - .W75N 1968 PY - 1968/// CY - New York PB - Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. KW - DEATH ROW INMATES KW - MURDERERS KW - TRIALS -- MURDER KW - FICTION N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -