{"product_id":"native-son-richard-wright","title":"Native Son (Richard Wright)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago's slums, reckless, angry and adrift.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1940, \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH AN AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRichard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Children\u003c\/i\u003e in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1940), his autobiography, \u003ci\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), and \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 480 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65879795827037,"sku":"K090912240","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9091224000001A.jpg?v=1788997849","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/native-son-richard-wright","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}