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1	Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston, Carla Kaplan (Editor), John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by) add to wishlist A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Steps in Composition more books like this by Lynn Quitman Troyka add to wishlist For one/two-semester paragraph-to-essay level basic writing courses in Developmental Writing. This thematic text for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics and participatory exercises that require students to get fully ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) more books like this by Stokely Carmichael, John Edgar Wideman (Illustrator), Ekwueme Michael Thelwell add to wishlist In this posthumously published memoir, the '60s activist presents a significant view of the Civil Rights movement and provides insight into those times. Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Stokely Carmichael became involved in the Civil Rights movement at Howard University, where he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Brothers and keepers more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist This book is Mr. Wideman's personal account of his brother Robby's life imprisonment for murder and robbery, evoked in distinct contrast to his own life as an English professor at the University of Wyoming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Live from Death Row more books like this by Mumia Abu-Jamal, John Edgar Wideman (Introduction by) add to wishlist A Peabody Award-winning radio reporter and convicted prisoner awaiting the death penalty presents an scathing account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life while criticizing the racism and political bias in the American judicial system. Reprint. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist By the author of "Brothers and Keepers". This personal account of the experiences of an American family is a story of an attempt to break free from the shackles of racial ideology. The author recounts his own transitions in life, and ponders what he might be if the paradigm of race were gone. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sent for you yesterday more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist In this volume from Wideman's "Homewood" series, Doot Lawson attempts to reintegrate himself into the myths and stories of his parents' and grandparents' generations and overcome the intellectual distance that has grown between them since his departure from Homewood. This novel won the PEN/Faulkner award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Best American Short Stories 1996 by John Edgar Wideman (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Editor) add to wishlist Each fall, The Best American Short Stories provides a fresh showcase for this rich and unpredictable genre. Selected from an unusually wide variety of publications, the choices for 1996 place stories from esteemed national magazines alongside those from some of the smallest and most innovative literary journals. Contributors include Joyce Carol ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Philadelphia Fire more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Eleven people - five of them children - are killed in west Philadelphia when 6221 Osage Avenue is bombed out of existence. One small boy is seen to escape the fire. From his life of self-exile on an island in the Aegean, Cudjoe mourns the child until it becomes an obsession, leading him home, forcing him to face up to his own profound alienation ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Island: Martinique more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist In a narrative that strikes a balance between prose and poetry, John Edgar Wideman writes about three weeks on the island of Martinique, including not only its present-day sights but its history and bits of Wideman's own life experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Two Cities: A Love Story more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist The two cities are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and what ties them together are the characters who inhabit them as well as a photographer who documents black life in both places. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Hiding Place more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Mother Bess was a crazy, mean old lady hiding from the world in a shack. Tommy was on the run from cops who would shoot first and ask questions later. Together, Tommy and Mother Bess will recall what they have lost--and find the courage to come out of hiding. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Souls of Black Folk more books like this by W E B Debois, W E B Du Bois, PH.D., John Edgar Wideman (Illustrator) add to wishlist An eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, that has stood the test of time as one of the most thoughtful and prophetic texts in American letters on the subject of race and racism. DuBois is particularly severe on the consequences of the moderate philosophies of Booker T. Washington, and advocates a bolder stance, including the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Pen/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Wideman presents the best of early African-American writing, featuring such works as "The Narrative of the Life" by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" in full text, with informative biographical introductions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Homewood Books more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Edgar Wideman's "The Homewood Books" is so named because they share characters, events, and locales, these two novels-- "Hiding Place" and "Sent for You Yesterday" -- and one collection of short stories --"Damballa"h-- are set in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, where Wideman was raised. As Wideman writes in his introduction to this edition, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.88! \| first editions
16 view cover	Hoop Roots more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Novelist John Edgar Wideman finds meaning and remembrances of things past in his lifelong connection to basketball. He recalls the lessons learned in his youth, explores his identity as an African American, and decodes the etiquette of the court. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Damballah more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist John Lawson is studying for an academic career while his brother Tommy is in jail on a charge of murder. Each brother feels alienated from their hometown community, but through stories and storytelling they make an effort to weave an oral mythology through which they hope to reintegrate themselves and rediscover their origins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Fever more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist A collection of 12 short stories which are connected by common themes of memory and loss, and by the interplay of reality and fabrication. From the author of "A Glance Away", "Brothers and Keepers" and "Sent For You Yesterday", which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1983. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist The story of the roots of black basketball in America, "Hoop Roots" is a major new memoir by the author of "Brothers and Keepers" and "Fatheralong". Wideman combines folklore and commentary to create a magical evocation of his unique slice of the American experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Stories of John Edgar Wideman more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist "One of America's premier writers of fiction" (The New York Times) and two-time winner of the prestigious PEN Faulkner Award presents his complete stories, thus far, as well as eleven stories written especially for this collection. Intensely lyrical and rageful, his stories concern African-Americans caught in the vortex of history and haunted by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	God's Gym: Stories more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist The first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature contains stories that move from the intimate to the political, from shock to transcendence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Cattle Killing more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist In plague-ridden 18th-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets him into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black, white over black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Fanon more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist Widemans fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoirto evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of "TheWretched of the Earth" and acute critic of racism and oppression. see all copies from $5.53! new only from $6.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Fever: Twelve Stories by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	God's Gym more books like this by John Edgar Wideman add to wishlist In these 10 stories, John Edgar Wideman writes feelingly about characters who must make their way through a difficult world. "What We Cannot Speak of We Must Pass Over in Silence" centers on a life imprisonment, "Sightings" is about a man reflecting on suicide, and "Are Dreams Faster Than the Speed of Light" features a man who is terminally ill. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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