Tells the story of Brother Tate, a Black albino who, after the death of his son, refuses to speak for twenty years

Sent For You Yesterday

Literature & Fiction

WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR

Contemporary

FONTANA PAPERBACKS (AUSTRALIA)

HIDING PLACE.

A fierce yet loving vision of two characters who are "hiding out" from the failures and fears of their lives. Part of the Homewood trilogy.

Hiding Place

Flamingo

Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties

Damballah

United States

Fontana Paperbacks

Man's failure to understand others is dramatically depicted in the confrontation of a middle-aged professor and a former drug addict

A Glance Away

Henry Holt Co.

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

Brothers and Keepers

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

As John Wideman was building a reputation as one of our finest writers, his brother Robby went from the streets of Philadelphia to a life sentence in prison for murder. As it weighs their shared bonds of blood, tenderness, and guilt, Brothers and Keepers yields an unsparing analysis of America's racial contract.

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

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

Reuben (Contemporary American Fiction)

By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of language that rests lightly on its carefully foundation.

Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Hurry Home

Harcourt,brace & World

Dust jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. His third book.

The Lynchers

HARCOURT, BRACE

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Sent For You Yesterday

Hiding Place

Damballah

A Glance Away

Brothers and Keepers

Brothers and Keepers

Reuben (Contemporary American Fiction)

Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)

Hurry Home

The Lynchers