Author: Wideman, John Edgar

Briefs

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Lulu.com : February 2010

Seller ID: 464490

ISBN-13: 9780557310043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

BRIEFS is a groundbreaking new collection of "microstories" from celebrated author John Edgar Wideman, previous winner of both the Rea and O. Henry awards saluting mastery of the short story form. Here he has assembled a masterful collage that explodes our assumptions about the genre. Wideman unveils an utterly original voice and structure-hip-hop zen-where each story is a single breath, to be caught, held, shared and savored. A relief worker's Sudan bulletin, a jogger's bullet-dodging daydreams, your neighbor's fears and fantasies, an absent mother's regrets-Wideman's storytellers are eavesdr...
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Brothers and Keepers

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston : October 1984

Seller ID: 420518

ISBN-13: 9780030617546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Scribner : October 2020

Seller ID: 468564

ISBN-13: 9781982148751

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"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 wa...
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