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"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.