In this work John Wideman, who won the 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, explores the basic theme of our failure to understand one another through an exploration into two radically different characters, their lives, and how they come together in a single confrontation.
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In this work John Wideman, who won the 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, explores the basic theme of our failure to understand one another through an exploration into two radically different characters, their lives, and how they come together in a single confrontation.
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VG PB. A young black man returns to his small city home after a year of kicking drug addiction & a middle-aged homosexual college. Professor with incipient alcoholism & memories of a domineering mother and an unhappy marriage. The two men confront each other in a smoky Dostoevskian tavern.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0850317398. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 186 pages; 1986 Allison & Busby. London. HC/DJ 1st UK edition of Wideman's first novel publihsed in America in 1967. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. Trace dust soil top edge and just mild shelf rubbing to jacket edges and surfaces. VG+/VG+