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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 13/10/2016
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ISBN: 9781446466889
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Length: 480 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' - James Baldwin
Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. Native Son shocked readers on its first publication in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 13/10/2016
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ISBN: 9781446466889
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Length: 480 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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"Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies."
New York Times
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"Richard Wright's Native Son is, in addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel"
David Mamet, Guardian
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"Unsettling urban violence from the man who was Mosley's inspiration"
The Times
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"Native Son is the story of a young black man who kills two white women; and it was the first book - published in 1940 - to suggest that black Americans could actually get angry. When it came out, it beat The Grapes of Wrath in the best-seller lists"
Independent
