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Native son

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 subvservient status.

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  • "The story of Bigger Thomas, a character intended by the author to be a symbolic figure of American life."
  • "Right 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 book] 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, [it]is a reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. -Back cover."
  • "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 subvservient status."@en
  • "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 Biggger 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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "The life and death of Bigger Thomas, set in the black Chicago ghetto of the 1930's."@en
  • "Set in 1930s' Chicago, this powerful novel is as meaningful today as when it was written--both n its unsparing reflection of the poverty in the inner cities across the U.S. and in what it means to be black in America."@en
  • "Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman."
  • ""How Bigger was born" ([6] p.) from introduction to novel in containers."@en
  • "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.--"
  • "Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young African-American man finds release only in acts of violence."@en
  • "Set in 1930s' Chicago, this powerful novel is as meaningful today as when it was written--both in its unsparing reflection of the poverty in the inner cities across the U.S. and in what it means to be black in America."@en
  • "The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth whose tragic life was drawn from Richard Wright's own experiences and memories of the Chicago ghetto."@en
  • "Tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth whose tragic life was drawn from the author's own experiences and memories of the Chicago ghetto."@en

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  • "Native son Richard Wright"
  • "Native son"
  • "Native son"@en

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