John Edgar Wideman
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
$29.00 Add to cartThe first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036371
- Language: English
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Hoop Roots
$18.99 Add to cartA multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots brings “a touch of Proust to the blacktop” (Time) as it tells of the author’s love for a game he can
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0618257756
- Language: English
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Slaveroad
$28.99 Add to cartMajor literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality t… [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668057212
- Language: English
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Fanon
$16.95 Add to cartA philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0547086164
- Language: English
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American Histories: Stories
$17.99 Add to cart“A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from award-winni… [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1501178350
- Language: English
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The Cattle Killing
$14.95 Add to cartIn plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both i
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0395877504
- Language: English
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Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a ref… [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1982148756
- Language: English
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The Homewood Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartFrom “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career–two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.
Damball- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148888
- Language: English
