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Wright and James Earl Jones - Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born

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Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape out society.

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Authors	James Earl Jones
Editors	Harold Bloom
Narrator	Peter Francis James
Fiction Genre	Drama • True Crime
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<b>Marshall, Margaret, <i>Nation</i>:</b> "Mr. Wright has chosen for his 'hero,' not a sophisticated Negro who at least understands his predicament and can adapt himself to it, but a 'bad nigger,' a 'black ape,' who is only dimly aware of his extra-human status and therefore completely at the mercy of the impulses it generates....One gets a picture of a dark world enclosed by a living white wall....Bigger and his friends are resentful; all feel powerless and afraid of the white world, which exploits, condescends to, and in turn fears the race it has segregated....Mr. Wright has laid bare, with a ruthlessness that spares neither race, the lower depths of the human and social relationship of blacks and whites; and his ruthlessness...clearly springs not from a vindictive desire to shock but from a passionate--and compassionate--concern with a problem obviously lying at the core of his own personal reality....It is not pleasant to feel at the end that one is an accessory to the crimes of Bigger Thomas; but that

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HardcoverDecember 01, 1997Buccaneer Books9"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.95 lbs.9781568496948

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