Damballah
| Year of Publication |
1981
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| Publication Type |
Short Stories
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| Series Title |
Homewood trilogy, 1/3
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
205 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher |
Avon Books
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Twelve interwoven stories that trace the author’s ancestors from the Civil War to the 1960s. The New York Times writes, “In these winding, lyrical tales—told in the voices of different narrators—we meet a diverse cast; their lineage can be traced back to Sybela Owens, a slave, who, upon learning that his father intended to sell Sybela, fled to Homewood in the 1840s with his slave mistress and their children.”
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| Author Biography |
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.
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| Time |
1840s-1960s
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