Native son
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 C...
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New York ; London :
Harper Perennial/Modern Classics,
[1940], 1991.
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| 020 | |a 9780061148507 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wright, Richard, |d 1908-1960, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Native son / |c by Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York ; |a London : |b Harper Perennial/Modern Classics, |c [1940], 1991. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã1940 | |
| 300 | |a 504 pages | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a "The restored text established by the Library of America"--t.p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-504). | ||
| 510 | 4 | |a First printings of American authors, |c vol. 1, page 427 | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American men |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Death row inmates |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Trials (Murder) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Communists |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Murderers |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Chicago (Ill.) |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Psychological fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress) |5 DLC | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Harper & Brothers, |e publisher. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. |t Native son. |d New York, London, Harper & Bros., 1940 |w (OCoLC)654150786 |
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