Native Son
de Wright, Richard
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Reprint. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reprint, 1st printing. Hard cover 8vo in blue cloth w/ dark blue titles and medallions. Near Fine w/ pieces of jacket adhered to stained rear cloth. else Fine and unmarked; no DJ. Includes the introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, plus Wright's essay "How Bigger Was Born". li, 359pp.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Basement Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 034189
- Título
- Native Son
- Autor
- Wright, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint. 1st Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- FICTION BLACK NEGRO RACE RELATIONS AFRO AMERICAN
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature; Non-fiction;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Basement Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sobre Basement Books
BASEMENT BOOKS, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializes in hard-to-find non-fiction, Western Americana, History, and First Edition mysteries and literature.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
