Native son /

By: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage classicsPublication details: London : Vintage, 2000Edition: [New ed.] / with an introduction by the author and a new introduction by Caryl PhillipsDescription: xviii, 454p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780099282938 (pbk.) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Fiction | Self-realization -- FictionGenre/Form: General.DDC classification: 813.52 LOC classification: PS3545.R815 | N38 2000Summary: Bigger Thomas refuses to accept, like his mother or his girlfriend, the panaceas of religion or whisky. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly. He only finally realises his individuality by facing his death.
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Bigger Thomas refuses to accept, like his mother or his girlfriend, the panaceas of religion or whisky. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly. He only finally realises his individuality by facing his death.