The man who lived underground : a novel /
Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright.
- xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
"An unpublished novel by the author of Native son" -- jacket. Includes companion essay Memories of My Grandmother. Published for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate.
Prefatory note -- The man who lived underground -- Memories of my grandmother -- Afterword / by Malcolm Wright -- Note on the texts.
"Fred 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."--