Look for me and I'll be gone : stories /

Look for me and I'll be gone : stories /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wideman, John Edgar, author.
Edition:	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Imprint:	New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021 ©2021
Description:	ix, 318 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Fiction. African Americans. United States -- Fiction. Short stories. Fiction. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12673885

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Look for me and I will be gone : stories
ISBN:	9781982148942 1982148942 9781982148966
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Art of story
Colored angel Levine
Last day
Separation
Till
Arizona
Whose teeth/whose story
Sheppard
Penn Station
Death row
Rwanda
Ipso facto
BTM
George Floyd story
Accused . . .
Atlanta murders
Someone to watch over me
Jordan
Lost and found
Lost love letters--a Locke
Another story.