Title:
The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright.
ISBN:
9781598536768
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Library of America, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Published for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate.
Includes companion essay Memories of My Grandmother.
"An unpublished novel by the author of Native son" -- jacket.
Contents:
Prefatory note -- The man who lived underground -- Memories of my grandmother -- Afterword / by Malcolm Wright -- Note on the texts.
Summary:
Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago.
OCLC Number:
on1153014568
Availability:
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