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God's gym / John Edgar Wideman.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.I26 G29 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
- Summary:
- The first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature contains stories that move from the intimate to the political, from shock to transcendence.
- Contents:
- Weight
- Hunters
- Sharing
- 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
- Fanon
- Who weeps when one of us goes down blues
- Sightings.
- Notes:
- Book design by Melissa Lotfy.
- Jacket design: Michaela Sullivan. Jacket photograph: © Miguel Rio Branco / Magnum Photos.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
- ISBN:
- 0618515259
- OCLC:
- 56194969
- Online:
- Publisher description
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