The Weekend Man [signed first edition]

Wright, Richard B.

ISBN 10: 0374287406 / ISBN 13: 9780374287405

Published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, UK, 1970

About this Item

First American edition, first printing. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Orange top edge stain. SIGNED by author, without further inscription, to title page. Light handling and shelfwear only to jacket and covers. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome copy. viii,247pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 79482gl

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Weekend Man [signed first edition]
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, UK
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374287406
• ISBN 13: 9780374287405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy.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 permitted to escape--from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago.

This is the simple, horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime. Only small parts of it have appeared in print, and in a significantly redacted form it would eventually be included in the short story collection Eight Men (1961). Now, for the first time, this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, the work that meant more to Wright than any other ("I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration"), is published in full, in the form that he intended.

About the Author

RICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of 11 novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 national bestseller that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and the CBA Libris Awards for Book of the Year and for Author of the Year. He has been awarded the Order of Canada. Richard B. Wright lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Phyllis.