{"product_id":"native-son","title":"Native Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago’s slums, reckless, angry and adrift.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1940, \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘In addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America'' James Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH AN AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57383798636926,"sku":"NW9781784876128","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784876128.jpg?v=1778600553","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/native-son","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}