Updates on the Alma Powell Branch Library can be found on kpl.gov/pow

Book

2 of 3 Copies Available

  • ALMA POWELL: Adult Stacks
  • OSHTEMO: Adult Stacks
Log In to Place HoldAdd Author AlertMore Details

The man who lived underground : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION WRIG (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Library of America, [2021]

Physical Description

xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"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."--

Notes

Published for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate.

Includes companion essay Memories of My Grandmother.

Contents

  • Prefactory note
  • The man who lived underground
  • Memories of my grandmother
  • Afterword / by Malcolm Wright
  • Note on the text.

Share: Facebook Twitter