Writing to save a life
Wideman, John Edgar2018
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The Till family; Emmett, murdered aged fourteen; Emmett's father, court-martialled and hanged. A flashpoint of the civil rights movement, this is the story of two generations, as John Edgar Wideman examines the intertwined fates of father and son. Weaving a narrative of truth and fiction, Wideman brings extraordinary insight and intimacy to this devastating story. At once a conversation between generations, fathers and sons, the living and the dead, 'Writing to Save a Life' is also an essential commentary on racism, history and the American prison system today.
Main title:
Writing to save a life / John Edgar Wideman.
Author:
Wideman, John Edgar, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2018.
Collation:
193 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2016.
Awards:
Prix Femina EĢtranger 2017
ISBN:
9781786893727 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
253542
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