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inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form--illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman’s ongoing contribution by offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Collection of short stories by the author covering the past ten years of his writing.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of ...
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
When a man is murdered and he is unfairly accused, Tommy hides out with Mother Bess--a relative who is mean and mentally unbalanced--and together they wallow in trepidation and anger desperately trying to find the nerve to face the world.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, this book tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball and belief.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
The action is in the form of vignettes and ranges from cattle killing by the Xhosa in Africa, believing this will drive the whites away, to a black bishop in Philadelphia taking his flock out of the white man's church.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Ida B. Wells, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.