398 pages
English language
Published July 24, 1966 by Harper & Row.
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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
Also contained in: Early Works
Subjects
- Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- African American men -- Fiction.
- Death row inmates -- Fiction.
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
- Murderers -- Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.