{"product_id":"man-who-lived-underground-the","title":"Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel, The","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Black Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFred 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eNative Son \u003c\/i\u003e(1940) and \u003ci\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would eventually see publication only in drastically condensed and truncated form in the posthumous collection \u003ci\u003eEight Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1961). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328449298532,"sku":"9781598536768","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/man-who-lived-underground-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}