Thanks again, gents, Mr. Williams as well as Mr. Guthrie.
TM (who has some Wright to catch up with)
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@...> wrote:
>
> Richard Wright's THE OUTSIDER
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Mason" <foxbrick@...>
> > 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
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