Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140143475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.
He is a MacArthur Fellow and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He divides time between New York and France. John Edgar Wideman s books include "Writing to Save a Life", "Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop Dreams, "and "Sent for You Yesterday".
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Wideman excels in a variety of prose styles, adopting the points of view of both black and white characters, telling some stories entirely in dialogue, others in unrelieved exposition," stated PW . From Publishers Weekly "Of the 12 stories in Wideman's wide-ranging new collection, six have never been previously published, and most are standouts
Criminally-neglected author, fine book. Wideman may be the finest American writer no one's ever heard of. Much of his early work has been allowed to run out of print and fade into obscurity; he remains a critical darling, popping up in _The Best American Short Stories_ and editing black-literature anthologies, yet he's never found a popular audience. Which is too bad, because Wideman's got a lot to say.Wideman covers much the same ground as Graham Swift-- the relationships between two human beings, whoever th