Native Son, Including an Introduction "How 'Bigger' Was Born" By the Author - Couverture souple

Wright, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140034811 ISBN 13 : 9780140034813

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"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)

"Richard Wright's Native Son is, in addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel" (David Mamet Guardian)

"Unsettling urban violence from the man who was Mosley's inspiration" (The Times)

"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)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.

This abridged edition includes an introduction, "How Bigger Was Born," by the author, as well as an afterword by John Reilly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0140034811
• ISBN 13: 9780140034813
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 464