Gripping and furious Native Son follows Bigger Thomas a young black man who is trapped in a
life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death he is
hunted relentlessly baited by prejudiced officials charged with murder and driven to
acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. Native Son shocked readers on its first publication
in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
