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Native son, by Richard Wright

Label
Native son, by Richard Wright
Language
eng
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Native son
Medium
sound recording
Oclc number
227033450
Responsibility statement
by Richard Wright
Summary
Bigger Thomas, a 20 year-old black man, is uneducated, unsophisticated, and unemployed. When a wealthy family offers him a chauffeur's position, Bigger is torn between gratitude for the job and anger over his subservient status. On his first evening, the family's daughter orders Bigger to spend a drunken night on the town with her and a gentleman friend. By morning the young woman is dead. Native Son is a stark and troubling account of murder, guilt, and racial hatred
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