The Man Who Lived Underground
- Author Richard Wright
- Narrator Ethan Herisse
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 6 hours and 44 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre ‘Street’ fiction, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Racism and racial discrimination, Society and Social Sciences, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE UNPUBLISHED MASTERPIECE FROM THE AUTHOR OF NATIVE SON AND BLACK BOY
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 ('I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration'), is published in full, in the form that he intended.
© Richard Wright 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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The Man Who Lived Underground is a masterpiece
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