Native Son

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.

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Hardcover. First Australian edition. Foxing on the page edges, a very good or better copy of a cheaply manufactured volume in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with several professionally internally repaired tears and irregular sunning at the spine. Along with Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man* and James Baldwin's *Go Tell It On the Mountain*, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.

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Item #440205 Native Son. Richard WRIGHT.

Richard Wright
birth name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
born: 9/4/1908
died: 11/28/1960
nationality: USA

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Biography

Novelist and short-story writer who was among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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