Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A lightly edgeworn edition that is otherwise Fine in a like dust-jacket.

Richard Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ordeal of a Native Son, tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young African American man living in Chicago in the 1930s. Thomas is the son of a former slave and a white woman, and he has inherited the physical and psychological scars of his past. The novel depicts Thomas's struggles to find his place in a society that discriminates against him and to find a way to express his own identity.; 8vo; 342 pages.