Hiding Place
| Year of Publication |
1981
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Series Title |
Homewood trilogy, 2/3
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
158 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 |
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. The New York Times 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.”
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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 |
1940s-70s
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