The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: John Edgar Wideman
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, Slavery or slaves, Friendship, City life, Tragedy
John Edgar Wideman is an African American novelist and short-story writer of remarkable range and power, as this work fully demonstrates. The Stories of John Edgar Wideman reprints two earlier collections—Damballah (1981) and Fever (1989)—and adds ten stories written especially for this volume and collected in it as “All Stories Are True.” The three collections are published here in reverse order, so that the reader begins with Wideman’s most recent stories and moves back through the two earlier collections. Such a journey reveals both the scope of Wideman’s fictional...
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