{"product_id":"native-son-isbn-9780060533489","title":"Native Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow an HBO Film!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.\u003c\/b\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. This classic American novel, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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 work of social commentary and a reflection on the poverty, racial injustice, 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 abridged edition of \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e reprints the original edition from 1940. It also includes an essay by Wright, \u003ci\u003eHow \"Bigger\" was Born, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as an afterword by John Reilly.\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. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This abridged edition includes an introduction, \"How Bigger Was Born,\" by the author, as well as an afterword by John Reilly.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A deep experience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Richard Wright’s masterpiece . . . 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGloria Naylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 Son. . . . \u003c\/em\u003eRichard 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGloria Naylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Library of America has ensured that most of Wright’s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon’s repose and to haunt the imagination.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A powerfully blunt novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This new edition gives us a \u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what means to live in a multiracial society on which power splits among racial lines.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Miles, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A novel of tremendous power and beauty.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887586111717,"sku":"NP9780060533489","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060533489.jpg?v=1730227019","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/native-son-isbn-9780060533489","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}