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The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground | Richard Wright
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Graywacke
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Partially really powerful, partially just curiously strange. The police brutality that opens this novel is intense enough that it was rejected for publication in 1942. And it knocks our main character into a very different state of mind for the rest of the book. A short story version was published in 1944 (I think that‘s the image above.). The full novel was only published in 2021.

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Graywacke
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My thoughts are with 🇮🇱 But, I‘m trying to get myself into this posthumously punished and so far very interesting work, which touches deeply on police brutality. (The novel was only published in 2021. A shorter version was included in Eight Men, a story collection published shortly after Wright‘s passing.)

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Nathan_Opland-Dobs
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Mehso-so

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Hooked_on_books
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Fred is a black man wrongly accused of murdering the neighbors of his employers and abused by police to try to obtain a confession. He manages to escape their custody and ends up in the sewers, where he suddenly has a window into some otherwise inaccessible spaces in a somewhat fantastical way. There is one choice he makes that I don‘t understand, but overall this is really well done and was a very engaging read.

AmyG He is such a great author. Black Boy is one of my most favorite books. 2y
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rsteve388
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This was a wonderful story that holds a mirror up to show how the past impacts and reflects the future of what black.people.have been dealing with since time immoral. Loved the narrator. Pushed through a lot of parts that made me uncomfortable. Because it's important to be uncomfortable when hearing stories of injustice.

#TeamSleighers #WinterGames Impulse read 10pts

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rsteve388
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I got some.swaps today #LitsyLoveWinterSwap #BO21 Thank you I am looking forward to opening these packages soon. My boxes will go out this weekend now that I have everything. #BestOf2021

BookwormAHN Glad it made it 😺 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 🎉🎊 2y
Avanders 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💙❄️🤍 2y
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vivastory
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This is the first Wright novel that I have read & I was admittedly a bit apprehensive of this unpublished novel. My reservations were due to the fact that the plot made me think of Ellison's picaresque of Black identity Invisible Man & I am always a bit leery of unpublished works by acknowledged masters. Although I don't have another Wright to compare this to, I found it to be an effective, surreal & memorable journey through America that👇

vivastory exceeded my expectations. Fred Daniels is picked up by police shortly after leaving for work & questioned. The interrogation quickly turns violent as they accuse him of a double murder. Shortly after signing a false confession he escapes into the sewers where he undergoes a metaphysical journey that is transformative for him. Having only existed in truncated versions, the publication of Wright's novel should be celebrated as one of '21 pub events 3y
vivastory Sidenote: Wright's novel was pub the same day as the Chauvin verdict, Fitting. Wright's daughter on CBS speaks about book:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/richard-wrights-daughter-on-his-new-book-the-man-w...
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batsy Nice review! I really need to read this and Native Son. 3y
vivastory @batsy Thanks! I definitely plan on making Native Son a priority after reading this 3y
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SaraBeagle
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Turned out to be a fitting publication day.

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