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by John Edgar Wideman

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John Edgar Wideman

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978-0380785193

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0380785196

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Vintage Books; First Edition edition (October 1988)

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Fiction

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Short Stories & Anthologies

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John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American author of novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and other works

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American author of novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and other works. Among the most critically acclaimed American writers of his generation, he was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience.

Wideman has a Faulknerian concern with place, and with tracing roots. There is a "begat chart" at the beginning of the book, telling you how the characters in the pages that follow are all related. And his writing can be Faulknerian, too, ranging back and forth in time, swooping into a character's thoughts and then back outside his or her head, often even blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction.

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He was explaining this to me in December, over a lunch of rare steak-frites and Bordeaux at Lucien, a bistro a few blocks from his Lower East Side apartment.

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by John Edgar Wideman. This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard).

John Edgar Wideman is one of the leading chroniclers of life in urban black America

John Edgar Wideman is one of the leading chroniclers of life in urban black America. An author who intertwines ghetto experiences with experimental fiction techniques, personal history with social events, Wideman is the only artist who has won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for literature twice.

John Edgar Wideman, our Henderson Award recipient, needs no introduction

John Edgar Wideman, our Henderson Award recipient, needs no introduction. From his first novel A Glance Away to his most recent collection American Histories, Wideman’s writing career spans five decades during which he has asserted himself as one of the most singular voices in American literature. Wideman’s works have been widely celebrated: he has notably won the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and for Philadelphia Fire (1990), which also won the American Book Award

Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience. This book spans thirty-five years. Wideman discusses a wide variety of topics-from postmodernism to genocide, from fatherhood to women's basketball.

Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience. Writing for me is a way of opening up," he states in one of the interviews in this collection, "a way of sharing, a way of making sense of the world, and writing's very appeal is that it gives me a kind of hands-on way of coping with the very difficult business of living a life. One of the pleasures of encountering these conversations is the glimpse they give into the workshop of the writer's mind.

Wideman at the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards in 2010. The Homewood Books (includes Damballah, Hiding Place and Sent for You Yesterday); Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992; as The Homewood Trilogy, New York, NY: Avon, 1985. 1941-06-14) June 14, 1941 (age 78) Washington, . A Glance Away, Hurry Home, and The Lynchers: Three Early Novels by John Edgar Wideman, New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1994. Damballah, (short stories), New York, NY: Avon, 1981. London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Fever (short stories), New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1989.

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Perdana

Excellent story based in historically supported detail.

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This is an astoundingly good book of short stories. Wideman hits all the marks: searing, lyrical prose; formal daring; and deep emotional resonance. Buy this book and cherish it!

Mr Freeman

Every year, literary types like to speculate on who will be named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in the US, the names that get bandied about are always the same: Roth, Pynchon, McCarthy, Oates, etc. Well, for my money, there is one writer who is just as devastatingly good as any other in America, and whose work has shed light on what it has meant to be an American in the latter half of the twentieth century, and now into the twenty-first: John Edgar Wideman. Only it seems that every time I recommend him to someone they claim to have never heard of him, and approaching the year 2013, a number of his books are out of print, and I almost never see them on bookstore shelves anymore. It's a shame. If you're serious about good literature, then you should do yourself a favor and check out his work.

Damballah is as good a place as any to start, being the first entry in his celebrated Homewood trilogy. Because here you get a good feel for Wideman's fiction--his concerns and preoccupations, his style and tone, his free approach to form--in short, gripping stories, each one a dispatch from a neighborhood in Pittsburgh that can only be described, in the time about which Wideman writes, as a ghetto. And Wideman does not shy away from depicting the worst of life in Homewood--a newborn thrown out with the trash, murder and attempted murder, people dealing with the emotional scars of a life that can be cruel and seemingly hopeless. What gives these bleak portraits life--and hope--are descriptions of small acts of goodness and forbearance and mercy, language that is sometimes startling and always alive on the page, and the knowledge that from the hellish place Wideman describes emerged an artist of the first rank, who has been a witness to this often-misunderstood aspect of American life, and has, with honesty and forcefulness and gritty poetry, given it a place in our literature.

Wideman has a Faulknerian concern with place, and with tracing roots. (There is a "begat chart" at the beginning of the book, telling you how the characters in the pages that follow are all related.) And his writing can be Faulknerian, too, ranging back and forth in time, swooping into a character's thoughts and then back outside his or her head, often even blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction. There is much of Wideman himself on these pages--not just the dramas of his own personal life, but his own sense of what literature can be. Reading these stories, I get a sense of an author who is simply writing what he has in his heart to write, even if it's not the kind of stuff that will make the bestseller lists, and even if it's not always easy to read. There are no outlandish, gimmicky characters, no attempts at literary cleverness, no easy jokes. There is just a very clear-eyed look at the lives of these troubled people, from the runaway slave who first settled in Homewood to the young men being imprisoned there more than a century later.

Read Damballah. And if it's to your liking, then try Wideman's great novel, Philadelphia Fire. And hopefully one of these years those folks out in Sweden will give Wideman the recognition he deserves.

Gralsa

Even if you don't read the rest of the Homewood Books, this collection stands up strong on its own. Stories such as "Damballah," "Daddy Garbage," and "The Caterpillar Story" are engaging although they are only a few pages long. The stoies are diverse, but they fit together to form an understanding of how a community survives through poverty and alienation. Some of the best stories in this collection are the touching "Daddy Garbage," the spirited "Love Songs of Reba Love Jackson," and the realistic "Rashad."

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