@book{390,
  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 {\textquotedblleft}can{\textquoteright}t go home again.{\textquotedblright}  {\textquotedblleft}Mr. Wideman approaches poetry in passages,{\textquotedblright} says <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, {\textquotedblleft}but his characters are firmly rooted in reality.  Experience painfully, painstakingly rendered.{\textquotedblright}},
  year = {1967},
  pages = {186 p.},
  publisher = {Harcourt, Brace, \& World},
  address = {New York},
  language = {English},
}