You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.
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You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.
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Wideman, John Edgar. To Robby.
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English
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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. , When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, he joined a list of esteemed writers-from Eudora Welty to George Saunders-who are acknowleged masters of the short story. Here he gathers a representative selection from his career, stories that challenge what defines, separates, and unites us, and to quote Wideman, seek to "deconstruct the given formulas of African American culture and life." Wideman's stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and to historic Philadelphia, the comtemporary world, and the ancient past. He explores the lives of his characters and the pressures that shape them. "John Edgar Wideman's short stories render an internal and external world as vivid and intricate as Faulkner's as emotionally painful as Baldwin's, and as unique as his own streets and stoops of Homewood," write the PEN/Malamud Award selection committee. You Made Me Love You, composed of fifty-seven stories drawn from past collections, is introduced by Walton Muyumba, a Wideman scholar and associate professor of English at Indiana University. In its totality, this volume celebrates the lifelong significance of a major American writer's essential contribution to a form. -- From dust jacket.