{"product_id":"the-man-who-lived-underground-9781598536768","title":"The Man Who Lived Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the simple, horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Lived Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1940) and \u003ci\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime. Only small parts of it have appeared in print, and in a significantly redacted form it would eventually be included in the short story collection \u003ci\u003eEight Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1961). 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wright, Richard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"Richard Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33052719022155,"sku":"9781598536768","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_ac8ae99e-c5c2-477d-b51b-427b34ada313.jpg?v=1612228114","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-man-who-lived-underground-9781598536768","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}