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Native Son

Richard Wright

624 pages

About this book

Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. ---------- Also contained in: [Early Works](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506449W)

Themes
Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingThought-ProvokingThrilling & PropulsiveWho Am I?Suffocating systemic oppressionFear as a driving forceDehumanization by society
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