NATIVE SON - PERENNIAL CLASSIC
by Wright, Richard, (Author, Introduction by) , Reilly, John (Afterword by)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
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Watkins Glen, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row. VG. 1966. Perennial Classic complete edition. Hardcover. Perma-bound edition. NO DUST JACKET ISSUED. Very good condition with light normal usage showing. White covers are mylar-skinned and having some light browning on spine from the sun. Other minor browning on rest of covers. Some blue stamped numbers on front endpapers. Text is clean/tight with some more than usual age browning due to cheaper paper used. Need to send a gift? We offer free domestic drop shipping, free gift wrapping and card for almost any occasion. Just let us know the occasion and your message. This offer is also available to our international customers as long as the s/h to the drop ship address is the same as yours. You are welcome to email for more information. ; Perennial Classic Series; 4 1/4 x 7 1/4; 398 pages .
Synopsis
Richard Wright’s Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty in Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When Bigger unintentionally murders a white woman, he is put on trial and eventually convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair. Often recognized as a protest novel, Native Son stresses systemic racial issues, prompting the reader to feel both sympathy and empathy for Bigger. In this, the novel is one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. Soon after publication, Native Son was selected by the Book of the Month Club as its first book by an African-American author. Indeed, the novel was an immediate best seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication. As a result of the novel’s success, Wright became the first bestselling and the wealthiest black writer of his time, establishing him as a spokesperson for African-American issues and, to many, the “father of Black American literature.” In 1941, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Wright awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal. Unsurprisingly, Native Son was challenged in many public schools and libraries and is listed in the American Library Association's list of the “Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999.” Yet most institutions in which the novel was challenged successfully fought to keep Wright's work accessible, particularly in the classroom, defending it as a guide into the reality of the complex adult and social world. Native son is listed as 20th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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- Bookseller
- Seneca Valley Used Books & Paper Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25578
- Title
- NATIVE SON - PERENNIAL CLASSIC
- Author
- Wright, Richard, (Author, Introduction by) , Reilly, John (Afterword by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- Perennial Classic complete edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Black America Jim Crow Black Americana, Negro American History Historical Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black Americana;
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