TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - ministers
KW - robberies
KW - Black churches
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - John Edgar Wideman
AB - Tommy, a party to a smash-and-grab robbery that leaves a dead man in a Pittsburgh parking lot, hides out in Homewood with Mother Bess, his great-grandmother’s sister. <em>The New York Times</em> writes, “Essentially this is a tale of two lost souls: ‘Crazy, Evel’ Bess, who, because of the death of her husband and son, has severed all family ties to live a reclusive life in a ramshackle house atop a hill overlooking Pittsburgh; and Tommy.”
BT - Homewood trilogy, 2/3
C1 - 1940s-70s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Homewood; Homewood Branch of Carnegie Public Library; Homewood AME Zion Church; Westinghouse Park; Highland Park (Pittsburgh Zoo); Oakland (Syria Mosque); Downtown
C4 - Literary; Slum; Psychological; Black
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Tommy, a party to a smash-and-grab robbery that leaves a dead man in a Pittsburgh parking lot, hides out in Homewood with Mother Bess, his great-grandmother’s sister. <em>The New York Times</em> writes, “Essentially this is a tale of two lost souls: ‘Crazy, Evel’ Bess, who, because of the death of her husband and son, has severed all family ties to live a reclusive life in a ramshackle house atop a hill overlooking Pittsburgh; and Tommy.”
PB - Avon Books
PP - New York
PY - 1981
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 - 158 p.
T2 - Homewood trilogy, 2/3
TI - Hiding Place
ER -