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The Homewood Trilogy

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148896
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Homewood Trilogy written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him “one of America’s premier writers of fiction.” Damballah’s narratives examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America. The novels Hiding Place and Sent for You Yesterday personalize and interrogate that history’s presence in the contemporary lives of Homewood people and all Americans. Deeply concerned that designations such as “economically oppressed” or “Black” continue to dismiss and marginalize rather than embrace communities like the one in which he was raised, John Edgar Wideman—employing words on the page as his weapon—has dedicated himself to recording the weight, beauty, complexity, and justice that he believes Homewood’s voices, stories, and lives have earned and deserve. In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman’s ongoing contribution by offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.

Damballah

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395897973
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Damballah written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties.

The Homewood Trilogy

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148888
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Look for Me and I'll Be Gone

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148950
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Look for Me and I'll Be Gone written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of language” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell. In Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone, his sixth collection of stories, John Edgar Wideman imbues with energy and life the concerns that have consistently infused his fiction and nonfiction. How does it feel to grow up in America, a nation that—despite knowing better, despite its own laws, despite experiencing for hundreds of years the deadly perils and heartbreak of racial division—encourages (sometimes unwittingly, but often on purpose) its citizens to see themselves as colored or white, as inferior or superior. Never content merely to tell a story, Wideman seeks once again to create language that delivers passages like jazz solos, and virtuosic manipulations of time to entangle past and present. The story “Separation” begins with a boy afraid to stand alone beside his grandfather’s coffin, then wends its way back and forth from Pittsburgh to ancient Sumer. “Atlanta Murders” starts with two chickens crossing a road and becomes a dark riff, contemplating “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” James Baldwin’s report on the 1979–1981 child murders in Atlanta, Georgia. Comprised of fictions of the highest caliber and relevancy by a writer whose imagination and intellect “prove his continued vitality...with vigor and soul” (Entertainment Weekly), Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone will entrance and surprise committed Wideman fans and newcomers alike.

The Homewood Books

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Homewood Books written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Homewood was to be a place in his fiction but also more than that, a metaphor for the African American experience".

Sent for You Yesterday

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395877296
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Sent for You Yesterday written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hiding Place

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395897980
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Hiding Place written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

You Made Me Love You

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148918
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book You Made Me Love You written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Brothers and Keepers

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148764
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Brothers and Keepers written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a reflection on John Edgar Wideman’s family and his brother’s incarceration—a classic that is as relevant now as when originally published in 1984. A “brave and brilliant” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, the classic John Edgar Wideman memoir, Brothers and Keepers, is a haunting portrait of two brothers—one an award-winning writer, the other a fugitive wanted for a robbery that resulted in a murder. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother, Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the American prison system. 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 dignity…this is a must-read book” (The Denver Post). With a new afterword by his brother Robert Wideman, recently released after more than fifty years in prison.

Conversations with John Edgar Wideman

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060535
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with John Edgar Wideman written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the author of The Homewood Trilogy, Brothers and Keepers, and Philadelphia Fire.

Philadelphia Fire

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982148853
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Fire written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. 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, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.

Understanding John Edgar Wideman

Author : D. Quentin Miller
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178258
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Edgar Wideman written by D. Quentin Miller and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete overview of an innovative and analytical author who rose from poverty Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. His analytical mind can turn almost any topic into an intellectual adventure, whether it is playground basketball, the blues, the prison experience, father-son relationships, or the stories he lived or heard growing up in the impoverished section of Pittsburgh known as Homewood. In Understanding John Edgar Wideman, D. Quentin Miller offers a comprehensive overview of Wideman's writings, which range from the critically acclaimed books of the Homewood Trilogy to lesser known writings such as the early novels A Glance Away and The Lynchers. Notably Miller includes the first scholarly analysis of Writing to Save a Life, Wideman's recently published meditation on the military trial and execution of the father of civil rights martyr Emmett Till. In his fiction, nonfiction, and works that artfully combine both forms, Wideman has employed a multilayered and often difficult writing style in order to explore a wide range of topics. Miller tackles such topics as African American folk history, the intersection of personal and public history, the confluence of oral and written traditions, and the quest for meaning in nihilistic urban settings where black families struggle against crime, poverty, and despair. Miller also shows how Wideman's singular personal history is interwoven into his writings. His impressive accomplishments, including an Ivy League education and numerous literary honors, have come alongside family tragedies. By the time his sixth novel was published, both his brother and son were serving life sentences for murder, a source of anguish that he wrestled with in Brothers and Keepers and Fatheralong. Wideman writes with such authority on so many subjects that readers frequently have no idea what to expect with a new publication. Understanding John Edgar Wideman is thus a necessary guide to a prolific, varied, and essential oeuvre.

The Hiding Place

Author : Trezza Azzopardi
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138590
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Hiding Place written by Trezza Azzopardi and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores Gauci, the youngest daughter in a family of six, watches as her father gambles away the family's money and eventually their lives.

Hoop Roots

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257751
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Hoop Roots written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek

Author : Michelle Tea
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1938073827
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Mermaid in Chelsea Creek written by Michelle Tea and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeat—from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there’s one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most hopeful story, the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straighten it out. The girl who will bring the magic. Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she’s unconscious, Sophie could be the one to uncover the power flowing beneath Chelsea’s potholed streets and sludge-filled rivers, and the one to fight the evil that flows there, too. Sophie might discover her destiny, and maybe even in time to save them all.

A Glance Away

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557314874
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book A Glance Away written by John Edgar Wideman and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Edgar Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when the author was just 26 years old. The New York Times Book Review raved "Here is a novelist of high seriousness and depth. He has all sorts of literary gifts, including a poet's flair for a taut, meaningful, emotional language." The action unfolds over the course of a single day, but deftly jumps through time to interweave the life journeys of two very different men whose paths converge one unforgettable evening with surprising and unforgettable results. Eddie Lawson, a young African-American, has spent a year kicking his drug habit and finally returned home. Robert Thurley, a white college professor, is on the verge of crumbling under the weight of haunting family memories, alcoholism, and a tormented struggle with his ambiguous sexual identity. Their encounter forcefully illustrates the consequences of our failure to understand one another, and the transformative possibilities that open up for those brave enough to try.

Hurry Home

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557314850
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Hurry Home written by John Edgar Wideman and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, The New York Times wrote, "Hurry Home is a dazzling display...we have nothing but admiration for Mr. Wideman's talent." Wideman's second novel is the powerful and remarkably prescient story of a highly educated, multiracial man's struggle to find himself and understand his place in a country walled off by sharp racial and class divisions which seem to preempt the very possibility of his existence. Cecil Braithwaite works as a janitor while earning a law degree, yet discovers faithful adherence to the script promising the American Dream is not enough. He travels abroad, looking to Europe and Africa, but can't escape the abiding sense of rootlessness, of being trapped in a halfway house of questions the world's not yet ready or willing to answer. Wideman starkly portrays how difficult it is to shake free of the shackles one is born to, claim an identity that transgresses society's most fundamental boundaries, and find one's true Home.