The Stories of John Edgar Wideman.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Octavo, red cloth & black board, 432 pp. Fine in a like dust jacket. Wideman writes intensely lyrical and rageful stories about African-Americans from all walks of life in Homewood, a black section of Pittsburgh - stories about ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. ‘Here are luminous stories, informed by the metaphysics of the blues, about the sublimities and terrors of the human condition.’ Winner of the prestigious PEN Faulkner Award.