Native Son
Bigger Thomas, twenty, shares one rat-infested South Side room with his family, then takes work as chauffeur to the white household whose real-estate money keeps the ghetto as it is. On the first night the daughter pulls him into her drinking and her politics, and before morning he has done something that cannot be undone. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection that made Wright the first bestselling Black American novelist; Bigger is unsympathetic by design.
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- responds to ↑ Uncle Tom's Children
- influenced by ↑ Crime and Punishment
- ↓ Invisible Man
- ↓ Go Tell It on the Mountain
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