EAN: 9781598536768

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STEPH CURRY'S UNDERRRATED BOOK CLUB PICK FOR APRIL 2022NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021ONE OF OPRAH'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021A major literary event: an explosive previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels a Black man is picked up by the police after a brutal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.This 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 Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) at the height of his creative powers it would eventually see publication only in drastically condensed and truncated form in the posthumous collection Eight Men (1961).Now 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.

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