The Man Who Lived Underground
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The Man Who Lived Underground
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Narrated by:
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Ethan Herisse
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By:
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Richard Wright
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A New York Times Best Seller
The unpublished masterpiece from the author of Native Son and Black Boy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.
©2021 Richard Wright (P)2021 Penguin Audio