TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wideman,John Edgar
TI  - Look for me and I'll be gone: stories 
SN  - 9781982148942
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - United States
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Art of story -- Colored angel Levine -- Last day -- Separation -- Till -- Arizona -- Whose teeth/whose story -- Sheppard -- Penn Station -- Death row -- Rwanda -- Ipso facto -- BTM -- George Floyd story -- Accused . . . -- Atlanta murders -- Someone to watch over me -- Jordan -- Lost and found -- Lost love letters--a Locke -- Another story
N2  - Forty years after John Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone interested in the state of America today. Its subjects range from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from distrust of authority to everyday grief, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell. A boy stands alone in his grandmother's house, unable to enter the room in which his grandfather's coffin lies, afraid the dead man may speak, afraid he won't speak. Freddie Jackson's song 'You Are My Lady' plays on the car radio as a son is brought to a prison cell in Arizona. A narrator contemplates the Atlanta child murders from 1979. Never satisfied to simply tell a story, Wideman continues to push form, with stories within stories, sentences that rise like a jazz solo with every connecting clause, voices that reflect who he is and where he's from, and an exploration of time that entangles past and present. Whether historical or contemporary, intimate or expansive, the stories here represent a pioneering American writer whose innovation and imagination know no bounds
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