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Native Son
de Wright, Richard; Introduction By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Pasadena, California, United States
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New York City, Ny: Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Xi, 359 Pp. Second Binding Of Blue Grey Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt On Black, Blue Topstain, Title Page Printed In Black And Red, Copyright Page With First Edition Stated And Code "A-P". Slight Usage, Gilt Brilliant. Former Owner's Name Dated 1940 In Holyoke Ma.
Sinopsis
Richard Wright’s Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty in Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When Bigger unintentionally murders a white woman, he is put on trial and eventually convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair. Often recognized as a protest novel, Native Son stresses systemic racial issues, prompting the reader to feel both sympathy and empathy for Bigger. In this, the novel is one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. Soon after publication, Native Son was selected by the Book of the Month Club as its first book by an African-American author. Indeed, the novel was an immediate best seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication. As a result of the novel’s success, Wright became the first bestselling and the wealthiest black writer of his time, establishing him as a spokesperson for African-American issues and, to many, the “father of Black American literature.” In 1941, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Wright awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal. Unsurprisingly, Native Son was challenged in many public schools and libraries and is listed in the American Library Association's list of the “Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999.” Yet most institutions in which the novel was challenged successfully fought to keep Wright's work accessible, particularly in the classroom, defending it as a guide into the reality of the complex adult and social world. Native son is listed as 20th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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- Librería
- Arroyo Seco Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 055857
- Título
- Native Son
- Autor
- Wright, Richard; Introduction By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Editorial
- Harper & Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York City, Ny
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century;
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- Cloth
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