Presents the restored text of Richard Wright's 1940 novel in which a young African-American man, trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, kills a rich white girl in a moment of panic, and finds himself on a path to self-destruction.
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 hopelessness experienced by people in the inner city and of what it means to be black in America.
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