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dc.contributor.authorTracie Church, Guzzio-
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T07:32:00Z-
dc.date.available2018-10-12T07:32:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-61703- 005-5-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9660-
dc.descriptionI remember the first moment that I was introduced to the work of John Edgar Wideman. At the time, I worked as a bookstore clerk. While shelving books—a task I usually enjoyed because it afforded me the chance to read in the back of the store—I grabbed a book that did not belong in the same corner of the store as the rest of the stack in my hands. I looked at its cover—the photograph of a shadowy figure in a jail cell. Reading the blurbs on the back, I was struck by the paradox stated in the book’s summary: one brother was a writer and a professor; the other brother was in jail for life. Why this fascinated me I don’t think I realized at the time. Perhaps I gravitated toward the book because of some need to investigate my own close but problematic relationship with a stepbrother often in trouble. Whatever the reason, I couldn’t leave the book alone. I returned to it over a period of several weeks, stealing time to read passages. It became a touchstone for me, though I couldn’t have articulated why at the time; it wasn’t until a few years later, when I experienced the loss of my own stepbrother, John, that I finally addressed some of the issues that led me to that book.-
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMississippien_US
dc.subjectWideman, John Edgar—Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.titleAll Stories Are Trueen_US
dc.title.alternativeHistory, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Widemanen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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