Reuben
| Year of Publication |
1987
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
215 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher |
Henry Holt & Company
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
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 Kirkus Reviews, “what holds it [Reuben] (tenuously) together is the ‘tired old Uncle Remus man’ celebrated in the title.”
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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 |
1980s
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