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This short story collection and novel, respectively, both published in 1981, are the second and third volumes in the author's Homewood trilogy. Damballah contains a dozen stories spanning many years in a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. Hiding Place shares the same setting.
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This short story collection and novel, respectively, both published in 1981, are the second and third volumes in the author's Homewood trilogy. Damballah contains a dozen stories spanning many years in a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. Hiding Place shares the same setting.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A novelist of high seriousness and dept . . . enormous care and intelligence." -- Review
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ORION let the dead, gray cloth slide down his legs and stepped into the river. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John French, Cassina Way, Reba Love Jackson, Daddy Garbage, Homewood Avenue, Sybela Owens, Charlie Bell, Aunt Aida, Aunt May, Albert Wilkes, Aunt Lissy, Bruston Hill, Bucket of Blood, Aunt Bess, Precious Jackson, Freeda French, Lemuel Strayhorn, Precious Pearl Jackson, Allegheny River Boulevard, Daddy John, Doo Wah Diddy, Westinghouse Park, Young People's Gospel Chorus New!
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ORION let the dead, gray cloth slide down his legs and stepped into the river. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
caterpillar story, nigger gal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John French, Cassina Way, Reba Love Jackson, Daddy Garbage, Homewood Avenue, Sybela Owens, Charlie Bell, Aunt Aida, Aunt May, Albert Wilkes, Aunt Lissy, Bruston Hill, Bucket of Blood, Aunt Bess, Precious Jackson, Freeda French, Lemuel Strayhorn, Precious Pearl Jackson, Allegheny River Boulevard, Daddy John, Doo Wah Diddy, Westinghouse Park, Young People's Gospel Chorus New!
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- Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Hiding Place (Homewood Trilogy) by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren in Front Matter
- Billy the Kid (Heroes & Villains of the Wild West) by John Hamilton on page 160
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