John Edgar Wideman has written 32 work(s)
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Man's failure to understand others is dramatically depicted in the confrontation of a middle-aged professor and a former drug addict
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9780911860504 | Chatham Bookseller, June 1, 1975, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: John Edgar Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when the author was just 26 years old.
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9780030056024, titled "A Glance Away" | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1985), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Man's failure to understand others is dramatically depicted in the confrontation of a middle-aged professor and a former drug addict
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Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties
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9780805281743 | Not Applicable, April 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories portrays the history of a Black family, from Africa to slavery in America and life in a Northern city
Paperback:
9780395897973 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, July 6, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties
9780679720287 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1988), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties
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9780613075794 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.25 | About this edition: Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties
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9780805281750 | Reprint edition (Not Applicable, April 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When Tommy's attempt at burglary fails, he searches for a place to hide from the police and ends up in the house of a crazy old woman
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9780395897980 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, July 6, 1998), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When a man is murdered and he is unfairly accused, Tommy hides out with Mother Bess--a relative who is mean and mentally unbalanced--and together they wallow in trepidation and anger desperately trying to find the nerve to face the world.
9780679720270 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1988, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Hunted by the law for a murder he didn't commit, Tommy hides out in old Miss Bess's lonely house on Bruston Hill
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9780805033076 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman’s seminal memoir about two brothers one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder.
9780844666037 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman’s seminal memoir about two brothers one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder.
9780030617546 | Holt Rinehart & Winston, October 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a study that is part autobiography and part social history, the author documents the life of his younger brother, Robby, who has been imprisoned for life without parole, discussing the reasons for his own success and his brother's tragedy
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9780618509638 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 26, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a study that is part autobiography and part social history, the author documents the life of his younger brother, Robby, who has been imprisoned for life without parole, discussing the reasons for his own success and his brother's tragedy.
9780679756941 | Vintage Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In a study that is part autobiography and part social history, the author documents the life of his younger brother, Robby, who has been imprisoned for life without parole, discussing the reasons for his own success and his brother's tragedy
9780140082678 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1985), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In a study that is part autobiography and part social history, the author documents the life of his younger brother, Robby, who has been imprisoned for life without parole, discussing the reasons for his own success and his brother's tragedy
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9780805281880 | Reprint edition (Not Applicable, February 1, 1985), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Brother Tate, a Black albino who, after the death of his son, refuses to speak for twenty years
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9780395877296 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 15, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lucy and Carl struggle to prevent the extinction of the Black community of Homewood and to keep alive the musical heritage of the blues piano player, Albert Wilkes
9780679720294 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1988), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of Brother Tate, a Black albino who, after the death of his son, refuses to speak for twenty years
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9781556441363 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
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An aging, highly intelligent black lawyer who lives in a cluttered trailer is the go-between for the poor blacks of Homewood who must deal with the authorities downtown
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9780805003758 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1987, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: An aging, highly intelligent black lawyer who lives in a cluttered trailer is the go-between for the poor blacks of Homewood who must deal with the authorities downtown
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9780140105957 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An aging, highly intelligent black lawyer who lives in a cluttered trailer is the go-between for the poor blacks of Homewood who must deal with the authorities downtown
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9780805011845 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories follows a young woman jogger into an erotic fantasy, recounts an English professor's attempt to deconstruct his life, and records a black musician's remembrances of his grandmother
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9780140143478 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1990), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories follows a young woman jogger into an erotic fantasy, recounts an English professor's attempt to deconstruct his life, and records a Black musician's remembrances of his grandmother
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9780805012668 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: At once personal and political, this novel about being Black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes
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9780618509645 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 26, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: At once personal and political, this novel about being black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes.
9780679736509 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Philadelphia Fire is the most ambitious, most highly praised, and best-selling work of fiction by "one of America's premier writers of fiction" (The York Times).
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9780822938316 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 26, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of three books portraying life in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, recounts the pains, passions, dreams, and memories of living in a ghetto
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A collection of stories by the author of A Glance Away, Hurry Home, Brothers and Keepers, Reuben, Fever, and Philadelphia Fire features tales of African Americans from all walks of life who reside in Homewood, a black section of Pittsburgh. 25,000 first printing.
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9780679407195 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Stories feature individuals from all walks of life who reside in Homewood, a Black section of Pittsburgh
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9780679737520 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Stories feature individuals from all walks of life who reside in Homewood, a Black section of Pittsburgh
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9781882320011 | Unabridged edition (Helion Records, August 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Stories feature individuals from all walks of life who reside in Homewood, a black section of Pittsburgh.
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Product Description: Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons...read more
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9781882320189 | Unabridged edition (Helion Records, August 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons.
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9780679407201 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Provides a memoir that explores the roots of identity, the complexities of family relationships, and the struggle to heal in the face of familial estrangement and racial ideology
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9780679737513 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 29, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Provides a memoir that explores the roots of identity, the complexities of family relationships, and the struggle to heal in the face of familial estrangement and racial ideology
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9780395785904 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant Black preacher struggles to save a mysterious, endangered African woman from a racially explosive society
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9780395877500 | Mariner Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant Black preacher struggles to save a mysterious, endangered African woman from a racially explosive society
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9780395752913 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
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9780395752906 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
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9780395798669 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
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9780395798652 | Mariner Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
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9781578060542 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience.
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9780395857304 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A young woman mourning the deaths of her husband and sons, victims of urban violence, Kassima finds redemption in a love affair with the gentle Robert Jones and in a collection of photographs, taken by her late, eccentric tenant, that document a half-century of African American history
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A panoramic overview of the battles and campaigns of the American Civil War includes detailed descriptions of pivotal engagements, portraits of great military leaders, and more than three hundred photographs, illustrations, paintings, and maps.
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9781567998238 | Illustrate edition (Metro Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.98 | About this edition: A panoramic overview of the battles and campaigns of the American Civil War includes detailed descriptions of pivotal engagements, portraits of great military leaders, and more than three hundred photographs, illustrations, paintings, and maps.
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9781567997286 | Ill edition (Metro Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.98 | About this edition: An illustrated overview of the Civil War includes original maps and period photographs that capture the tension and strife of the times
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9780618001859 | Mariner Books, September 30, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed in fourteen previous acclaimed books.
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9780762410354, titled "My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African American Literature" | Running Pr Book Pub, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Ida B.
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9780345455666 | Reprint edition (One World, November 1, 2002), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African-American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Ida B.
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9780395857311 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author recalls his experiences playing basketball with whites and African Americans in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, describing how African Americans slowly but surely changed the nature of the sport.
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9780618257751 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, February 6, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author recalls his experiences playing basketball with whites and African Americans in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, describing how African Americans slowly but surely changed the nature of the sport.
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An anthology that presents a collection of twenty tales from this literary contest's prize-winning volumes from the past twenty years.
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9780822941705 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An anthology that presents a collection of twenty tales from this literary contest's prize-winning volumes from the past twenty years.
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9780822958154 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $17.00
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