Exclusive Edition with never before published in the UK essay,I Chose Exile about why Richard Wright chose to leave America - a standard edition is available here
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.
This is the simple,horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel,The Man Who Lived Underground,a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime.
Now,for the first time,this incendiary novel about race and violence in America,the work that meant more to Wright than any other,is published in full,in the form that he intended.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 2928377168865Number of pages: 240Weight: 195 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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