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Native Son

Richard Wright

2005186 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2005
first published
  • 1970Harper & Row · 398 pages · ENGISBN 9780060830557
  • 1989Harper & Row · 393 pages · ENGISBN 9780060147624
  • 1989Perennial Library · 398 pages · ENGISBN 9780060809775
  • 1998Perennial Classics · 504 pages · ENGISBN 9780060929800
  • 2003Perennial · 398 pages · ENGISBN 9780060533489
  • 2005Harper Perennial Modern Classics · 504 pages · ENGISBN 9780060837563
  • 2005Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · 504 pages · ENGISBN 9780606345156
  • 2000Greenhaven Press · 186 pages · ENGISBN 9780737703207
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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

How it feels

MoodNostalgic
Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered

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ThemesComing of age

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