The Man Who Lived Underground

By: Richard Wright

a major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of native son and black boy.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 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--or is...