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American Histories by John Edgar Wideman
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of memory. A re-imagined conversation takes place between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. A man sits on the edge of Williamsburg ...Show more
American Histories by John Edgar Wideman
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 reverberatio ...Show more
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the Ame ...Show more
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel.At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns ...Show more
Writing to Save a Life : The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Description: The murder of Emmett Till is a familiar story, it has become American legend. But one twist in the Till story is rarely mentioned: just ten years earlier, Louis Till, Emmett's father, was executed by the army. In 1955, when both boys were fourteen years old, Wideman saw the horrific photogr ...Show more
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