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Amazon.com: Notes of a Native Son: 9780807064313: Baldwin, James, Jones, Edward P.: Books

Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago’s slums, reckless, angry and adrift. A respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame. First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It…

Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940 Richard Wright’s landmark novel, according to pbs.org, "paints a brutal picture of a young, poor Black man, 20-year-old

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Bigger Thomas is complex. Part Heathcliff, part Raskolnikov, he stalks the city—a mass of brooding resentment and violent impulsivity, in a fugue state. Brutalized and brutal, belittled and bewildered, submissive and threatening, he tears through his life, more vicious and dismissive to most of those who are close to him and show him love than those who humiliate him. Richard Wright has conjured through Bigger the personification of James Baldwin’s observation that “the most dangerous…

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