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Look For Me and I'll Be Gone (Hardcover, Main)
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Look For Me and I'll Be Gone (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Forty years after John
Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this stunning
collection that is vital reading for anyone interested in the state
of America today. Its subjects range from Michael Jordan to Emmett
Till, from distrust of authority to everyday grief, from childhood
memories to the final day in a prison cell. A boy stands alone in
his grandmother's house, unable to enter the room in which his
grandfather's coffin lies, afraid the dead man may speak, afraid he
won't speak. Freddie Jackson's song 'You Are My Lady' plays on the
car radio as a son is brought to a prison cell in Arizona. A
narrator contemplates the Atlanta child murders from 1979. Never
satisfied to simply tell a story, Wideman continues to push form,
with stories within stories, sentences that rise like a jazz solo
with every connecting clause, voices that reflect who he is and
where he's from, and an exploration of time that entangles past and
present. Whether historical or contemporary, intimate or expansive,
the stories here represent a pioneering American writer whose
innovation and imagination know no bounds.
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