02996cam a2200337 4500 545449638 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062971463 0062971468 B082T2953L Amazon 6c181cf5-feeb-444d-8513-33cf68e022f3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5167673 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wright, Richard. The Man Who Lived Underground [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 776kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Classic Literature. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><strong>New York Times Bestseller</strong></p> <p><strong>"The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any 'greatest writers of the 20</strong><strong>th</strong> <strong>century' list that doesn't start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book." —Kiese Laymon</strong></p> <p><strong>A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other ("I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration") is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, "Memories of My Grandmother." Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson, contributes an afterword.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c181cf5-feeb-444d-8513-33cf68e022f3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c181cf5-feeb-444d-8513-33cf68e022f3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c181cf5-feeb-444d-8513-33cf68e022f3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)