| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
227 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note(S) |
"Scribner fiction original hardcover." |
| Contents |
JB & FD -- Dark matter -- Shape the world is in -- My dead -- Music -- Bonds -- New start -- Maps and ledgers -- Writing teacher -- Williamsburg Bridge -- Examination -- Wail -- Lines -- Nat Turner confesses -- Empire -- Yellow sea -- Bunny and Glide -- Snow -- Ghost dancer -- Collage. |
| Summary |
"In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject(S) |
Life -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Love.
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Death.
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Emotions.
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American history.
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African Americans.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Collection.
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Historical.
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United States -- History -- Fiction.
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| Added Name(S) |
Bucz, Hunor.
Short stories. Selections.
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| ISBN |
9781501178344 (hardcover) |
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