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Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
Damballah - Homewood Trilogy
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This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--w... more »
Author:
This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--w... more »
ISBN-13: 9780679720287
ISBN-10: 0679720286
Publication Date: 10/12/1988
Pages: 205
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 0679720286
Publication Date: 10/12/1988
Pages: 205
Rating: ?
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Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories & Anthologies >> United States
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories & Anthologies >> Short Stories
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Black & African American >> Wideman, John Edgar
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( W ) >> Wideman, John Edgar
