ARGONAUT BOOKS

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this 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. Reviews This is truly inimitable storytelling. No one writes an American horror story like John Edgar WidemanObserverMaster of language . . . Wideman has always been less interested in what a story tells than how it gets told, how the telling shapes our percepti...Read More