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Right from the start Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could havebeen for assault or petty larceny by chance it was for murder and rape.Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downwardspiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set inChicago in the 1930s Richard Wrights novel is just as powerful today as whenit was written in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness and what itmeans to be black in America. This abridged edition includes an introductionHow Bigger Was Born by the author as well as an afterword by John Reilly. «
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