Native son
(1998, original release: 1940)
Fiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/FICTION/WRIGHT,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperAudio, [2008]
℗2008
℗2008
DESCRIPTION
15 audio discs (17.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9780061457838 UACD 5654 (15), 0061457833
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Unabridged
Bigger Thomas, a 20 year-old black man, is uneducated, unsophisticated, and unemployed. When a wealthy family offers him a chauffeur's position, Bigger is torn between gratitude for the job and anger over his subservient status. On his first evening, the family's daughter orders Bigger to spend a drunken night on the town with her and a gentleman friend. By morning the young woman is dead. Native Son is a stark and troubling account of murder, guilt, and racial hatred
Performed by Peter Francis James
Compact disc