Native Son

(HarperPerennial Modern Classics series). Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerfully evocative novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feeling of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. This edition features the restored text established by The Library of America. Chronology, Note on the Texts, Notes. 504p.