Richard Wright's THE OUTSIDER
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From: "Todd Mason" <foxbrick@yahoo.com>
To: <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Novel ID query:
> 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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