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Sent for You Yesterday

by John Edgar Wideman · 1983

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Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes a mythological and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands of a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology" (New York Times Book Review).

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisraceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisPittsburghPittsburghMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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