The unexpurgated version of Wright's electirfying novel shows his determination to write honestly about his controverial protagonist. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cuts - including the replacement of an entire scene- that Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. "Native Son" exploded on the American literary and cultural scene in 1940. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the full range and power of his achievement as an experimental stylist and as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. "Native Son" and "Black Boy" are classics of twentieth century American literature - and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote.
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