{"product_id":"9780061148507","title":"Native Son","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNative Son\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Richard Wright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eNative Son.\u003c\/em\u003e” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRight 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. \u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition—the restored text of \u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e established by the Library of America—also includes an essay by Wright titled, \u003cem\u003eHow \"Bigger\" was Born\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ealong with notes on the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“The Library of America has ensured that most of Wright’s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read.”\u003cbr\u003e“There have only been two books in my life that have made me cry: the first 50 pages of\u003cem\u003e Jane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e and the last 50 of \u003cem\u003eNative \u003c\/em\u003eSon.…Richard Wright’s masterpiece is in the school of protest novel…\u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“A novel of tremendous power and beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e“The most powerful American novel to appear since \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e. . . so overwhelming is its central drive, so gripping its mounting intensity.”\u003cbr\u003e“It’s difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty.”\u003cbr\u003e“An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon’s repose and to haunt the imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e“For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story.”\u003cbr\u003e“A powerfully blunt novel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061148507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41049210454222,"sku":"9780061148507","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061148507.jpg?v=1648090983","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061148507","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}