Review
"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."
Review
"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."
Book Description
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 aamythological 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).
Sent for You Yesterday ANNOTATION
A stunning novel. "Mr. Wideman returns to the ghetto where he was raised and transforms it into a magical location."--New York Times Review of Books
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 aamythological 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).
FROM THE CRITICS
New York Times Book Review
"...he establishes a mythologicl and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot."
Book World Washington Post
"Like Faulkner's, Wideman's prose fiction is vivid and demanding...Sent for You Yesterday is a book to be savored."
Book Review New York Times
"Hypnotic and deeply lyrical... [Wideman] is a literary artist with whom any reader who admires ambitious fiction must sooner or later reckon."
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