Native Son - Brossura

Wright, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 006053348X ISBN 13: 9780060533489

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003

Riassunto

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. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Richard Wright’s masterpiece . . . taught me that it’s all right to have passion within your work, that you don’t need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction.” (Gloria Naylor)

“A novel of tremendous power and beauty.” (Newsweek)

“The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath. . . so overwhelming is its central drive, so gripping its mounting intensity.” (New Yorker)

“It’s difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty.” (New York Herald Tribune)

“An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon’s repose and to haunt the imagination.” (New York Times)

“For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story.” (Saturday Review)

“A powerfully blunt novel.” (Washington Post)

L'autore:

Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 006053348X
• ISBN 13: 9780060533489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432