Fever: Twelve Stories
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.
- ISBN 10
- 0805011846
- ISBN 13
- 9780805011845
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Fiorst printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.. [12], 161, [3] p. Notes. From Wikipedia: "John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions....Wideman was born on June 14, 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the East End. He graduated from Pittsburgh's Peabody High School, then attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he became an All-Ivy League forward on the basketball team. He was the second African-American to win a Rhodes Scholarship (New College, Oxford University, England), graduating in 1966. He also graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. A widely-celebrated writer and the winner of many literary awards, he is the first to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. In 2000, he won the O. Henry Award for his short story "Weight", published in The Callaloo Journal. Following the publication of the Homewood trilogy, the New York Times proclaimed John Edgar Wideman, "one of America's premier writers of fiction." He has taught at the University of Wyoming, University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and chaired the African American Studies Department, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. He currently is a professor at Brown University."
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66989
- Title
- Fever: Twelve Stories
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First Edition [stated]. Fiorst printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0805011846
- ISBN 13
- 9780805011845
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Joggers, Erotic Fantasy, Professor, Blind, Basketball player, Jew, Memory, Loss, Statue of LIberty, Valaida, Hostages, Tambourine
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