AUTHOR: Richard Wright
ISBN: 0060809779
Plot Summary: Bigger Thomas is a young black man who kills a white woman in a moment of panic in 1930's Chicago. The novel tells of the downward spiral his life becomes after this act. It also examines racism in painful detail.
Word from the mouse: My recommendation? Don't read it unless you want a lot of philosophy and description. Full Review
Complaints: Violence, offensive language, racism
Removed from New Jersey schools in Trenton in 1977, North Bergen in 1980, and Wall Township in 1993. As recently as 1995, the book was still cited as "dangerous, explicit, dishonest..."
Solonor Says Ban It Because: It's just a male version of "The Color Purple".
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What African American Novel Radically Changed Black Writing?