006341 New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1940. Reprint edition. A good copy but for tad stained blue cloth, bumped corners. DJ is good-, has tip of toe and heel of spine gone, chipped around all edges. Clean, solid interior. Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels-like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT-that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright deliberately avoided making his protagonist a sympathetic character, wishing to accurately depict the dehumanization of blacks in American society, as well as his belief that Bigger, as a product of his environment, is not truly guilty of the murders he committed. $12.00USD
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