Richard Wright - The Outsider
On 01/07/2010 15:10, Todd Mason wrote:
>
> From the librarian-heavy Fiction-L:
>
> A patron came in yesterday with this plotline, but no memory of Title
> or Author. This is how she described it: An old book, read in teens
> (almost 30 yrs ago) about a man unhappy with his life, (his
> girlfriend, a menial job?) An opportunity to start a new life as
> someone else occurs when he is involved in a subway or train crash (I
> think the setting was a city, like Philadelphia in 50's or 60's) and
> changes clothes and identity with a deceased accident victim. He is
> successful in changing his identity until he runs into people who knew
> him from the past and he ends up killing one person after another to
> protect his identity. I don't remember the ending- hence the reason
> I'd like to read this book again. I think it may have been an African
> American author. I have tried literary resources such as Novellist and
> also Google to try to figure it out to no avail.
>
> --Thanks on behalf of a potentially happified library patron
>
> Todd Mason
>
>
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