- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781784876128
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $24.99
Native Son

















- Published: 1 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781784876128
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $24.99
Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, Native Son (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. Black Boy (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies.
New York Times
Richard Wright's Native Son is, in addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel
David Mamet, Guardian
Unsettling urban violence from the man who was Mosley's inspiration
The Times
Native Son is the story of a young black man who kills two white women; and it was the first book - published in 1940 - to suggest that black Americans could actually get angry. When it came out, it beat The Grapes of Wrath in the best-seller lists
Independent
[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction