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  • Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

    de Richard Wright, Malcolm Wright ...
    A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Philadelphia Fire

    A Novel

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move.In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Writing to Save a Life

    The Louis Till File

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Qu’on me cherche et je ne serai plus

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    Traducido por Catherine Richard-Mas ...
    Une visite rendue au frère de l’auteur en prison, la foule qui accueille Mandela au Cap lors de sa libération, un couple noir qui s’embrasse dans Manhattan, le génocide au Rwanda ou encore le mouvement Black Lives Matter sont autant de sujets explorés ici dans une langue d’une musicalité digne des plus grands solos de jazz. Qu’on me cherche et je ne serai plus nous interpelle et nous éblouit. En ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Fanon

    A Novel

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France during World War II but later against France in Algeria's war for independence. His last book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, inspired leaders of diverse liberation movements: Steve ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Histories

    Stories

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    “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 reverberations are at the core of this slim, powerful volume, a blend of fiction, memoir, and reimagined history, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Brothers and Keepers

    A Memoir

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    “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) ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • God's Gym

    Stories

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • La trilogie de Homewood. Damballah - Où se cacher - Le rocking-chair qui bat la mesure

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    Trois romans, trois portraits de la vie dans le ghetto noir de Homewood, à Pittsburgh, dans lesquels John Edgar Wideman raconte les douleurs, les passions, les rêves et les souvenirs de cette communauté. Damballah réinvente l’histoire mythique de sa famille fondatrice, dont l’épopée brutale et poétique traverse les générations, les continents et les malédictions. Où se cacher met en scène une ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Fatheralong

    A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (New York Times Book Review) memoir in five essays about fathers, and Wideman's vexed relationship with his own.An essential chronicler of Black American experience for over half a century, John Edgar Wideman has been hailed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. In ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Slaveroad

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    “Master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” offering “a fresh perspective of slavery’s impact and a confirmation of Wideman’s exalted status in American letters” (New York magazine).John Edgar Wideman’s Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of “bruising candor and obsessive originality” (The Wall Street ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • You Made Me Love You

    Selected Stories, 1981-2018

    de John Edgar Wideman ...
    A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits.When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list of esteemed writers—from Eudora Welty to George Saunders—all of whom are acknowledged masters of the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD