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Native Son
by Wright
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Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels--like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright deliberately avoided making his protagonist a sympathetic character, wishing to accurately depict the dehumanization of blacks in American society, as well as his belief that Bigger, as a product of his environment, is not truly guilty of the murders he committed.
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9780060809775,
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Harpercollins,
1987
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9780060808556,
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Perennial Library,
1987
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9780573612916,
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S. French,
1980
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9780060812492,
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Harpercollins,
1993
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9780065023664,
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Addison-Wesley,
1997
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9780812021233,
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Barrons Educational Series Inc,
1986
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9780788721120,
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Recorded Books,
1999
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9780061457838,
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Caedmon Audio Cassette,
2008
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Amereon Ltd,
2000
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9780060837563,
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Harpercollins,
2005
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2005
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9780816157877,
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Thorndike Pr,
1993
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9780060929800,
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Harpercollins,
1998
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9780060533489,
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Perennial,
2003
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9780791096253,
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Chelsea House Pub,
2008
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9780060147624,
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Harpercollins,
1969
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9781568496948,
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Buccaneer Books,
1997
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Publisher Notes
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape out society.
Media Reviews
"Mr. Wright does spoil his story at the end by insisting on Bigger's fate as representative of the whole Negro race and making Bigger himself say so. But this is a minor fault in a good cause. The story is a strong and powerful one and it alone will force the Negro issue into our attention. Certainly 'Native Son' declares Richard Wright's importance, not merely as the best Negro writer, but as an American author as distinctive as any of those now writing."
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