Richard Wright got this published in 1940. It seems ahead of its time. It's about a chauffeur Bigger Thomas who accidentally kills his employer's daughter. He panics and chops her up into the furnace. He tries to pin it on a communist but is eventually found out. The other half of the book deals with him on the run. One of the reasons Bigger didn't like the employer's daughter was that she respected him and treated him like a human being. It confused him too much. He gets accused of rape also although that didn't happen. The book drags a bit by the end since it preaches too much. But you get the point the media displayed in the book wants to paint this man as a monster. It's an interesting view on how race was treated in the day and not only the paranoia of communism at that time as well. I've got to read Richard Wright's autobiographical "Black Boy."
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