Sent for You Yesterday
| Year of Publication |
1983
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Series Title |
Homewood trilogy, 3/3
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
208 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 |
The Black community fights to prevent the decline of 1970s Homewood by championing its history back to the 1930s, especially Albert Wilkes, the neighborhood's legendary blues piano player.
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| Notes |
Won the 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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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 |
1941-70
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