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Bigger is black, twenty, living with his family in a one-room rat-infested apartment in Chicago, going with a girl he doesn't care about, hanging out with friends he doesn't like, unemployed.
He is forced to take a job to keep his mother and siblings in their apartment. The job is acting as a chauffeur for a rich white family. On his very first night as chauffeur, everything goes wrong and he kills the daughter.
Native Son is a starkly realistic picture of life as a young black man in a big city ...more
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A dark, raw, brutal look at the violence and fear that is inherent in a society that privileges some people over others because of their race. Wright is a sensational and shocking storyteller. His messages about race relations and the politics and economics of the USA ring true today.
A dark, raw, brutal look at the violence and fear that is inherent in a society that privileges some people over others because of their race. Wright is a sensational and shocking storyteller. His messages about race relations and the politics and economics of the USA ring true today.
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