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You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.I26 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wideman, John Edgar, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 462 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2021.
- 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.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Wideman, John Edgar. To Robby.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Damballah: good serpent of the sky.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Begat chart.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Damballah.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Daddy garbage.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Lizabeth.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Across the wide Missouri.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Tommy.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Solitary.
- Wideman, John Edgar. Doc's story.
- ISBN:
- 9781982148911
- 1982148918
- OCLC:
- 1244115493
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