Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son
Hardcover
1980 · Garden City, NY
by Gayle, Addison
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0385088779 . A lightly edgeworn edition that is otherwise Fine in a like dust-jacket ; Richard Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ordeal of a Native Son, tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young African American man living in Chicago in the 1930s. Thomas is the son of a former slave and a white woman, and he has inherited the physical and psychological scars of his past. The novel depicts Thomas's struggles to find his place in a society that discriminates against him and to find a way to express his own identity.; 8vo; 342 pages . (Inventory #: 58401)