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The Homewood Trilogy

by John Edgar Wideman
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From "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman's own hometown.
Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him "one of America's premier writers of fiction."

Damballah's narratives examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America. The novels Hiding Place and Sent for You Yesterday personalize and interrogate that history's presence in the contemporary lives of Homewood people and all Americans.

Deeply concerned that designations such as "economically oppressed" or "Black" continue to dismiss and marginalize rather than embrace communities like the one in which he was raised, John Edgar Wideman—employing words on the page as his weapon—has dedicated himself to recording the weight, beauty, complexity, and justice that he believes Homewood's voices, stories, and lives have earned and deserve.

In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman's ongoing contribution by offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.

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    November 14, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781982148898

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      • ISBN: 9781982148898
      • File size: 4582 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from November 1, 2023

      Out of print for 40 years, Wideman's brilliant trio of books presents a kaleidoscopic panorama of his Pittsburgh neighborhood, described by one character as more than mere bricks and boards: "Homewood was them singing and loving and getting where they needed to get." Written simultaneously, Damballah, The Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday are not a trilogy in the conventional sense but a mosaic of stories and novels whose styles range from gritty vernacular and bluesy lyricism to Joycean stream-of-consciousness and objective reportage, reflecting the complexity and diversity of its subjects. Wideman's relationship to his incarcerated brother, subsequently explored in his 1984 memoir Brothers and Keepers, looms large here in his unflinching depiction of persecuted fugitives past and present, while the author's own self-imposed exile both enhances and complicates his efforts to bear witness to a culture and a way of life, as tributary to a flowing tradition of griots and musicians stretching back to Africa. VERDICT Aptly described as an urban Black complement to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels and a prose analogue to playwright August Wilson's Pittsburgh-set "Century Cycle," this masterly, transformative work of remembrance is nothing short of a masterpiece.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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