Native Son by Richard Wright - Lettered Edition

PRE-ORDER PRICE: $1,950PUBLICATION PRICE: $2,150 Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, Native Son is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in Depression-era America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism and hopelessness on the human spirit. First published in 1940, The New Yorker called Native Son by Richard Wright “the most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath.” Wright’s protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling over a quarter million hardcover copies within just three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club.  One of the earliest and most influential novels to confront America’s racial divide through the lived realities imposed upon Black Americans by a dominant white societ