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Native Son: Richard Wright
Native Son: Richard Wright
paperback
Published:
17 August, 2000
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099282938 |
| ISBN10 | 0099282933 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 340 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 34 x 196 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Classics |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 01 |
Media Reviews
Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies. * New York Times *
Richard Wright's Native Son is, in addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel -- David Mamet * Guardian *
Unsettling urban violence from the man who was Mosley's inspiration * The Times *
Native Son is the story of a young black man who kills two white women; and it was the first book - published in 1940 - to suggest that black Americans could actually get angry. When it came out, it beat The Grapes of Wrath in the best-seller lists * Independent *
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Author's Bio
Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen and returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago, where in 1935, he began to work on the Federal Writers' Project. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. After the Second World War, he went to live in Paris with his wife and daughters, remaining there until his death in 1960.