- African American men, African americans, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Bildungsromans
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- August 2, 2005
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, A. Bonniers, PICADOR
- Editions
- 75
- Language
- French, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780060830557
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