Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Description |
xxvii, 462 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Damballah (1981). To Robby -- Damballah: good serpent of the sky -- A begat chart -- Damballah -- Daddy garbage -- Lizabeth: the caterpillar story -- Across the wide Missouri -- Tommy -- Solitary -- Fever (1989). Doc's story -- Surfiction -- Fever -- All stories are true (1992). All stories are true -- Backseat -- What he saw -- Newborn thrown in trash and dies -- Welcome -- God's gym (2005). Weight -- The silence of Thelonious Monk -- Are dreams faster than the speed of light -- Who invented the jump shot -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Briefs (2010). Witness -- To Barry Bonds: home run king -- War stories -- Close -- Party -- Automatic -- Writing -- Breath -- Message -- Manhole -- Martyr -- Ruins -- Cleaning up -- You are my sunshine -- New work -- Short story -- Swimming -- Answering service -- Ghetto -- Review -- Fall -- Now you see it -- FIrst love suite -- Ralph Waldo Ellison -- Genocide -- Passing on -- Haiku -- Wolf whistle -- Shadow -- American Histories (2018). JB & FD -- My dead -- Maps and ledgers -- Williamsburg bridge -- Nat Turner confesses -- Collage. |
Summary |
"Wideman's commitment to short fiction has been lifelong, and here he gathers a representative selection from throughout his career, stories that challenge what defines, separates, and unites us; dare to push form and defy convention; and, to quote Wideman, seek to 'deconstruct the given formulas of African American culture and life.' Wideman's stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and historic Philadelphia, the contemporary world and the ancient past. He explores the interior lives of his characters, and the external pressures that shape them. These stories are as intellectually intricate as they are rich with the language and character." -- Amazon. |
Subject(S) |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Added Name(S) |
Muyumba, Walton M., writer of introduction.
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ISBN |
9781982148911 (hardcover) |
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1982148918 (hardcover) |
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