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Author Wright, Richard, 1908-1960, author.

Title The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : A Library of America Special Publication, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
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Note "An unpublished novel by the author of Native son."
Summary "Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood 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"--Provided by publisher.
Note Includes companion essay Memories of my grandmother.
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Subject African American men -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.
Discrimination in law enforcement -- Fiction.
Torture victims -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genre Novels.
Added Author Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Memories of my grandmother.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Man who lived underground New York, N.Y. : A Library of America Special Publication, [2021] 9781598536768 (NjBwBT)bl2021008805 (OCoLC)1153014568
ISBN 9780062971463
0062971468
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