The man who lived underground

Wright, Richard, 1908-19602022

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Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood 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. Written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), Wright was unable to publish "The man who lived underground" in his lifetime. Now, for the first time, this incendiary novel about race and violence in America is published in full, in the form that he intended.