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inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
A gripping, unsettling account, Brothers and Keepers weighs the bonds of blood, affection, and guilt that connect Wideman and his brother and measures the distance that lies between them. “If you care at all about brotherhood and ...
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Lucy and Carl struggle to prevent the extinction of the Black community of Homewood and to keep alive the musical heritage of the blues piano player, Albert Wilkes.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
This is Wideman at his best—emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating—an extraordinary collection by a master.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
This memoir is the story of an American family. Wrestling himself free from racial ideology, Wideman engages his family, past and present, in order to understand who he is today and to heal familial wounds.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
From the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice comes this redemptive, healing love story that celebrates the survival of an endangered urban black community and the ways in which people redeem themselves.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, this is the author's seminal memoir about two brothers, one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, ...
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties.
inauthor:"John Edgar Wideman" from books.google.com
Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. ...
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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.