Ripubblicato per celebrare l'80° anniversario della pubblicazione di Native Son: scopri il capolavoro brutale e avvincente di Richard Wright in questo mese della storia dei neri. ''( Native Son ) possiede un'arte, una penetrazione di pensiero e un potere emotivo assoluto che lo collocano in prima linea nella narrativa americana'' Ralph Ellison Spericolato, arrabbiato e alla deriva, Bigger Thomas è cresciuto intrappolato in una vita di povertà nei bassifondi di Chicago. Ma un lavoro con la ricca famiglia Dalton fornisce l'ambientazione per una collisione catastrofica tra il suo mondo e il loro. Braccato da cittadini e polizia e adescato da funzionari prevenuti, Bigger si ritrova la causa celebre in un finale sempre più ristretto. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1940, Native Son sconvolse i lettori con la sua rappresentazione sincera della violenza e il confronto con gli stereotipi razziali. Ha continuato a rendere Richard Wright il primo scrittore nero di successo in America. ''Il romanzo più importante e celebrato sulla vita dei neri ad essere apparso in America'' James Baldwin CON UNA NUOVA POSTFAZIONE DI GARY YOUNGE.
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Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.
Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history month.
Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting 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 went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
With a new afterword by gary younge.
'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin
'[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph Ellison
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