Native Son - Couverture souple

“Richard Wright’s masterpiece . . . taught me that it’s all right to have passion within your work, that you don’t need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction.” (Gloria Naylor)

“A novel of tremendous power and beauty.” (Newsweek)

“The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath. . . so overwhelming is its central drive, so gripping its mounting intensity.” (New Yorker)

“It’s difficult to write temperately of a book which abounds in such excitement, in so profound an understanding of human frailty.” (New York Herald Tribune)

“An enormously stirring novel. . . a story to trouble midnight and the noon’s repose and to haunt the imagination.” (New York Times)

“For terror in narrative, utter and compelling, there are few pages in modern American literature that will compare with this story.” (Saturday Review)

“A powerfully blunt novel.” (Washington Post)