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Title:
You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.
ISBN:
9781982148911
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Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, 2021.

©2021
Physical Description:
xxvii, 462 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Contents:
Damballah (1981). To Robby ; Damballah : good serpent of the sky ; A begat chart ; Damballah ; Daddy garbage ; Lizabeth : the caterpillar story ; Across the wide Missouri ; Tommy ; Solitary -- Fever (1989). Doc's story ; Surfiction ; Fever -- All stories are true (1992). All stories are true ; Backseat ; What he saw ; Newborn thrown in trash and dies ; Welcome -- God's gym (2005). Weight ; The silence of Thelonious Monk ; Are dreams faster than the speed of light ; Who invented the jump shot ; What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Briefs (2010). Witness ; To Barry Bonds : home run king ; War stories ; Close ; Party ; Automatic ; Writing ; Breath ; Message ; Manhole ; Martyr ; Ruins ; Cleaning up ; You are my sunshine ; New work ; Short story ; Swimming ; Answering service ; Ghetto ; Review ; Fall ; Now you see it ; First love suite ; Ralph Waldo Ellison ; Genocide ; Passing on ; Haiku ; Wolf whistle ; Shadow -- American histories (2018). JB & FD ; My dead ; Maps and ledgers ; Williamsburg Bridge ; Nat Turner confesses ; Collage..
Summary:
Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form--illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
OCLC Number:
on1244115493
Availability:
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