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The Man Who Lived Underground de Richard Wright

The Man Who Lived Underground: Vintage Classics

Autor Richard Wright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mar 2023
The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the police

Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local precinct, he is tortured -- until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit.

But when he sees his chance, Fred Daniels, makes a run for it. With the world now against him, there is only one place left to hide: Underground. Taking residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago, Fred's new vantage point takes him on a journey through America's unjust, and inhumane underbelly.

PRAISE FOR THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND

'Propulsive, haunting...gripping' Oprah Daily
'A tale for today' New York Times
'Absolutely not to be missed' BookRiot
'A masterpiece' Time
'Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.' Kiese Laymon
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784877699
ISBN-10: 1784877697
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 127 x 195 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Random House
Seria Vintage Classics

Notă biografică

Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-­slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.

Recenzii

“The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.”  — Kiese Laymon
"A tale for today. . . . [Wright's] restored novel feels wearily descriptive of far too many moments in contemporary America." — New York Times
"The power and pain of Wright’s writing are evident in this wrenching novel. . . . Wright makes the impact of racist policing palpable as the story builds to a gut-punch ending, and the inclusion of his essay “Memories of My Grandmother” illuminates his inspiration for the book. This nightmarish tale of racist terror resonates." — Publishers Weekly
“Propulsive, haunting. . . . The graphic, gripping book ends with a revealing companion essay that further explains the themes of this searing novel.” — Oprah Daily
"It's impossible to read Wright’s novel without thinking of this 21st-century moment. . . . Wright deserves sensitive reconsideration, especially now that so many of us have been proved naive in our belief that an honest rendering of Black people might lead to recognition of our existence in the universality of humanity."  — Imani Perry, The Atlantic
"Finally, this devastating inquiry into oppression and delusion, this timeless tour de force, emerges in full, the work Wright was most passionate about, as he explains in the profoundly illuminating essay, 'Memories of My Grandmother,' also published here for the first time. This blazing literary meteor should land in every collection."  — Booklist (starred review)
"A welcome literary resurrection that deserves a place alongside Wright’s best-known work."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Never did Wright approach race more directly than in The Man Who Lived Underground." — Los Angeles Times
"Not just Wright's masterwork, but also a milestone in African American literature . . . The Man Who Lived Underground is one of those indispensable works that reminds all its readers that, whether we are in the flow of life or somehow separated from it, above- or belowground, we are all human." — Gene Seymour, CNN.com
"Like a telegram from mid-century America warning us about our very present, Richard Wright’s novel arrived with the shock of recognition for readers in the midst of a reckoning with racial injustice." — Time Magazine
"To read The Man Who Lived Underground today . . .  is to recognize an author who knew his work could be shelved for decades without depreciation. Because this is America. Because police misconduct, to use the genteel 2021 term, is ageless." — Chicago Tribune
"Moves continuously forward with its masterful blend of action and reflection, a kind of philosophy on the run. . . . Whether or not The Man Who Lived Underground is Wright’s single finest work, it must be counted among his most significant." — Clifford Thompson, Wall Street Journal
“Enthralling. . . . You could say that the book’s release now is timely, given that it contains an account of police torture. . . .  But that feels false because Wright’s story would have been just as relevant if it had been released 10 years ago or 30, 50, or 80—when he composed it. . . . Maybe, then, it’s more accurate to think of The Man Who Lived Underground as timeless rather than timely.” — New Republic
"This is a significant work of literary fiction from a legendary author that’s absolutely not to be missed." — Book Riot
"Nothing less than the reestablishing of a major legacy."  — The Chicago Tribune
“The Man Who Lived Underground is a masterpiece." — Time Magazine