TY - SER
KW - alcoholism
KW - Orthodox Christians
KW - homosexuality
KW - addiction
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
KW - professors
AU - John Edgar Wideman
AB - 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 <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “but his characters are firmly rooted in reality.  Experience painfully, painstakingly rendered.”
C1 - 1950s-60s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Homewood
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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 <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “but his characters are firmly rooted in reality.  Experience painfully, painstakingly rendered.”
PB - Harcourt, Brace, & World
PP - New York
PY - 1967
RN - John Edgar Wideman (1941- ), raised in Pittsburgh's Homewood and Shadyside neighborhoods, graduated from Liberty Elementary and Peabody High School. A star basketball player, he was all-Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned a MFA. Wideman is the winner of many literary awards and a professor at Brown University.
EP - 186 p.
TI - A Glance Away
ER -