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Author Wright, Richard, 1908-1960, author.

Title The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright.

Publication Info. New York : Library of America, [2021]
©2021

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.52 W935m 2021    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Published for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate.
Includes companion essay Memories of My Grandmother.
Contents Prefactory 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 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 city's sewer system."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject African American men -- Fiction.
False arrest -- Fiction.
Psychological torture -- Fiction.
Police misconduct -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Dwellings -- Fiction.
Sewerage -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Police corruption -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Dwellings -- Fiction.
Sewerage -- Fiction.
American essays.
Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Container of (work) : Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Memories of my grandmother.
Wright, Malcolm, writer of afterword.
ISBN 9781598536768 (hardcover)
1598536761 (hardcover)

 
    
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