A Glance Away
| Year of Publication |
1967
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
186 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher |
Harcourt, Brace, & World
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| City |
New York
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| 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 “can't go home again.” “Mr. Wideman approaches poetry in passages,” says Kirkus Reviews, “but his characters are firmly rooted in reality. Experience painfully, painstakingly rendered.”
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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 |
1950s-60s
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