@book{372, keywords = {alcoholism, Orthodox Christians, homosexuality, addiction, Black Americans, Protestants, professors}, author = {John Edgar Wideman}, title = {A Glance Away}, abstract = {Eddie Lawson, 30, an ex-postal worker and drug addict, returns home to Pittsburgh after a year of rehabilitation, but his enraged and crippled mother thrusts him back on the streets. The novel covers 24 hours, with many flashbacks, in the life of a black man who discovers he “can't go home again.” “Mr. Wideman approaches poetry in passages,” says Kirkus Reviews, “but his characters are firmly rooted in reality. Experience painfully, painstakingly rendered.”}, year = {1967}, pages = {186 p.}, publisher = {Harcourt, Brace, & World}, address = {New York}, language = {English}, }