TY - SER
KW - attorneys
KW - legal aid
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - John Edgar Wideman
AB - A gnomish, hunchbacked man, Reuben, 60, is an attorney who operates from a trailer and gives legal aid to Homewood’s poor. “Full of dazzling set pieces and flights of urban fancy,” says <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “what holds it [<em>Reuben</em>] (tenuously) together is the ‘tired old Uncle Remus man’ celebrated in the title.”
C1 - 1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Homewood; Homewood AME Zion Church; Homewood Branch of Carnegie Public Library; Highland Park; Pittsburgh Zoo
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A gnomish, hunchbacked man, Reuben, 60, is an attorney who operates from a trailer and gives legal aid to Homewood’s poor. “Full of dazzling set pieces and flights of urban fancy,” says <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “what holds it [<em>Reuben</em>] (tenuously) together is the ‘tired old Uncle Remus man’ celebrated in the title.”
PB - Henry Holt & Company
PP - New York
PY - 1987
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 - 215 p.
TI - Reuben
ER -