This is Richard Wright's stark and vehement novel about a young black man who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to fre e himself proves hopeless. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's d eath, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charg ed with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. He realises his full individuality only through the confrontation of death. NATIVE SON is among the first American works of fiction to port ray an existential hero in the process of self-transcendence, and is o ne of the last novels of the politically conscious, post-depression years.
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