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The Man Who Lived Underground

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STEPH CURRY''S "UNDERRRATED" BOOK CLUB PICK FOR APRIL 2022 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ONE OF TIME''S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021 ONE OF OPRAH''S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE''S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal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 city’s sewer system.   This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would eventually see publication only in drastically condensed and truncated form in the posthumous collection Eight Men (1961).   Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author''s estate, the full text of this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, 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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781598536768
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 240
  • Udgivet:
  • 20. april 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 211x141x26 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 412 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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STEPH CURRY''S "UNDERRRATED" BOOK CLUB PICK FOR APRIL 2022
NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
ONE OF TIME''S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021
ONE OF OPRAH''S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021
ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE''S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021
A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy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 city’s sewer system.
 
This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would eventually see publication only in drastically condensed and truncated form in the posthumous collection Eight Men (1961).
 
Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author''s estate, the full text of this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, 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.

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