Native Son.
WRIGHT, Richard.
Native Son.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.
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Item Number: 834
First edition, first issue binding and dust jacket. Octavo, original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine in red and grey. A near fine copy with light rubbing in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Signed by Richard Wright. Uncommon signed and in the first issue binding.
Richard Wright's ground-breaking novel Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." (Irving Howe).
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