The Homewood Trilogy (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Edgar Wideman
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Two novels and a collection of short stories
- Type of Plot: Social and psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s-the 1980’s, with flashbacks to the nineteenth century
- Setting: The Homewood section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: John French, Freeda Hollinger, John, Tommy, Bess, Albert Wilkes, Carl French, Brother Tate, Lucy Tate, Doot
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
The Novels
The three volumes of what is known as the Homewood trilogy were originally published as separate Avon paperbacks. The novel Hiding Place and the short-story collection Damballah were published in 1981, and the novel Sent for You Yesterday in 1983. Following the critical success of the three works—Sent for You Yesterday won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction—Avon Books reissued them in a paperback titled The Homewood Trilogy (1985). The University of Pittsburgh Press published a hardback edition of the three works in...
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