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Author:John Edgar Wideman
American Histories: Stories
"A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from award-winning author John Edgar Wideman--his first collection in more than a decade. "Race and its...- $16.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
"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...- $29.40
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Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
"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...- $17.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Fanon
A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France during World War II but later against France in Algeria's war for independence....- $16.95
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Fever
By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of language that rests lightly on its carefully foundation.Author: John Edgar WidemanISBN-10: 0140143475ISBN-13: 9780140143478Publisher: Penguin...- $14.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
God's Gym: Stories
In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who...- $12.95
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Hoop Roots
A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman's Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop (Time) as it tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play. Beginning with the scruffy backlot...- $18.99
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
From John Edgar Wideman, a master [who] boldly subverts what a short story can be (Publishers Weekly) 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...- $39.99
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
*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...- $26.00
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Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
*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...- $17.99
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Philadelphia Fire
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...- $17.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Slaveroad
Major literary figure and "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history. John Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical,...- $26.99
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
The Cattle Killing
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from...- $14.95
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
The Homewood Trilogy
"Master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman's first-ever collection of his most revered works--two novels and story collection all set in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood where he grew up. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning...- $19.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Two Cities: A Love Story
A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed in fourteen previous acclaimed books. It is a story of bridges -- bridges spanning the rivers of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, bridges arching over the rifts that have...- $15.95
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expos " (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted...- $25.00
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expos " (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted...- $16.00
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Author:John Edgar Wideman
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
A powerful and "stunning" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman's short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits. When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he...- $18.99
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