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You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xxvii, 462 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982148911
  • 1982148918
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
To Robby -- Damballah: good serpent of the sky -- Begat chart -- Damballah -- Daddy garbage -- Lizabeth -- Across the wide Missouri -- Tommy -- Solitary -- Doc's story -- Surfiction -- Fever -- All stories are true -- Backseat -- What he saw -- Newborn thrown in trash and dies -- Welcome -- Weight -- The silence of Thelonious Monk -- Are dreams faster than the speed of light -- Who invented the jump shot -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Witness -- To Barry Bonds: home run king -- War stories -- Close -- Party -- Automatic -- Writing -- Breath -- Message -- Manhole -- Martyr -- Ruins -- Cleaning up -- You are my sunshine -- New work -- Short story -- Swimming -- Answering service -- Ghetto -- Review -- Fall -- Now you see it -- First love suite -- Ralph Waldo Ellison -- Genocide -- Passing on -- Haiku -- Wolf whistle -- Shadow -- JB & FD -- My dead -- Maps and ledgers -- Williamsburg Bridge -- Nat Turner confesses -- Collage..
Damballah (1981) -- Fever (1989) -- All stories are true (1992) -- God's gym (2005) -- Briefs (2010) -- American histories (2018).
Summary: Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form-illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction WIDEMAN, JOHN Available 33111010501134
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A powerful and "stunning" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman's short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits.

When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list of esteemed writers--from Eudora Welty to George Saunders--all of whom are acknowledged masters of the short story. Wideman's commitment to short fiction has been lifelong, and here he gathers a representative selection from throughout his career, stories that "have a wary, brooding spirit, a lonely intelligence...[and] air the problem of consciousness, including the fragile contingency of our existence" ( The New York Times ).

Wideman's stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and historic Philadelphia, the contemporary world and the ancient past. He explores the interior lives of his characters, and the external pressures that shape them. These stories are as intellectually intricate as they are rich with the language and character. "Wideman has been compared to William Faulkner and James Baldwin...[these] prove that he is every bit as masterful a cartographer of the American spirit as his forebears" ( Esquire ).

Comprised of thirty-five stories drawn from past collections ( American Histories , Briefs , God's Gym , All Stories Are True , Fever , and Damballah ), and an introductory essay by the National Book Critics Circle board member and scholar Walton Muyumba, this volume of Wideman's selected stories celebrates the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form--illuminating the ways that he has made it his own. "If there were any doubts Wideman belongs to the American canon, this puts them to bed" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).

To Robby -- Damballah: good serpent of the sky -- Begat chart -- Damballah -- Daddy garbage -- Lizabeth -- Across the wide Missouri -- Tommy -- Solitary -- Doc's story -- Surfiction -- Fever -- All stories are true -- Backseat -- What he saw -- Newborn thrown in trash and dies -- Welcome -- Weight -- The silence of Thelonious Monk -- Are dreams faster than the speed of light -- Who invented the jump shot -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Witness -- To Barry Bonds: home run king -- War stories -- Close -- Party -- Automatic -- Writing -- Breath -- Message -- Manhole -- Martyr -- Ruins -- Cleaning up -- You are my sunshine -- New work -- Short story -- Swimming -- Answering service -- Ghetto -- Review -- Fall -- Now you see it -- First love suite -- Ralph Waldo Ellison -- Genocide -- Passing on -- Haiku -- Wolf whistle -- Shadow -- JB & FD -- My dead -- Maps and ledgers -- Williamsburg Bridge -- Nat Turner confesses -- Collage..

Damballah (1981) -- Fever (1989) -- All stories are true (1992) -- God's gym (2005) -- Briefs (2010) -- American histories (2018).

Includes bibliographical references.

Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form-illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.

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