Details e-Book The Man Who Lived Underground
đ¸ Author(s): Richard Wright
đ¸ Title: The Man Who Lived Underground
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New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprahâs 15 Favorite Books of the Year âThe Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any âgreatest writers of the 20th centuryâ list that doesnât start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wrightâs most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.â âKiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the cityâs sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the authorâs estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (âI have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspirationâ) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, âMemories of My Grandmother.â Malcolm Wright, the authorâs grandson, contributes an afterword.