God's Gym
| Year of Publication |
2005
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| Publication Type |
Short Stories
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
176 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher |
Houghton Mifflin
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| City |
Boston
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| Abstract |
Ten stories by Wideman that revisit Pittsburgh life and move to Martinique, Minneapolis, and other settings. The title story is set in Shadyside on Walnut Street and another in Homewood.
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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 |
2000s
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