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- Release Year
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9780060837563
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006083756X
ISBN-13
9780060837563
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038196093
Product Key Features
Book Title
Native Son : a Novel
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Contemporary Women, Small Town & Rural, General, Coming of Age
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
0.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
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Trade
Reviews
"The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath. . . so overwhelming is its central drive, so gripping its mounting intensity." -- The New Yorker "An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon's repose and to haunt the imagination." -- New York Times "The Library of America has ensured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review "A novel of tremendous power and beauty." -- Newsweek "There have only been two books in my life that have made me cry: the first 50 pages of Jane Eyre and the last 50 of Native Son. . . . Richard Wright's masterpiece is in the school of protest novel. . . Native Son taught me that it's all right to have passion within your work, that you don't need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction." -- Gloria Naylor "It's difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty." -- New York Herald Tribune "For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story." -- Saturday Review "A powerfully blunt novel." -- Washington Post "This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what means to live in a multiracial society on which power splits among racial lines." -- Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times, The Library of America has ensured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read., Richard Wright's masterpiece . . . taught me that it's all right to have passion within your work, that you don't need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction.
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Synopsis
One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels "If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son. " - Henry Louis Gates Jr. "The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath ." -- The New Yorker When it was first published in 1940, Native Son established Richard Wright as a literary star. In the decades since, Wright's masterpiece--hailed by Newsweek as "a novel of tremendous power and beauty"--has become a revered classic that remains as timely and relevant today as when it first appeared. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, this formidable work is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism, and hopelessness on the human spirit. "I wrote Native Son to show what manner of men and women our 'society of the majority' breeds, and my aim was to depict a character in terms of thw living tissue and texture of daily consciousness," Wright explained. This edition of Native Son --the restored text established by the Library of America--is the novel as Wright intended it to be published. It also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born , along with notes on the text., Now an HBO Film "If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son. " - Henry Louis Gates Jr. 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 powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. This edition--the restored text of Native Son established by the Library of America--also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born , along with notes on the text., 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 on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America."This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what it means to live in a multi-racial society in which power splits along racial lines."-Los Angeles Times
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- l***o (117)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePackage arrived from Skokie, IL to southeast Michigan in three days. Book was wrapped well in an large outer plastic mailing envelope and in a second large plastic mailing envelope inside . Book was in the condition described and even has the errata sheet insert. I had no problems with the seller, and I would buy from them again. Good sale.The War Toys 2: Kriegsspielzeug : The Story of / Die Geschichte Von Lineol (#236102241091)
- v***n (68)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe seller supplied additional photos showing that the books included both dust jackets as described. The books arrived well on time and were in a like new condition. They were also well packaged. This was of great value. Thank you very much. Perfect.
- p***e (1221)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePurchased on 08.26.2025 and rec'd as described on 09.02.2025 (after Labor Day holiday). Two text books were individually wrapped in plastic, wrapped together in another plastic baggie and then placed in a padded envelope. Very happy w/ the extra protection taken in shipping the text books. Thank you.Houghton Mifflin English: Student Edition Hardcover Level 8 2001 (#236189377749)