A man lay dead in a parking lot. Tommy didn't kill him, but the police will shoot first and ask questions later. Mother Bess is kin, but she is a crazy, mean old lady hiding out high about the Homewood streets--streets that have taken away everything she ever loved. Together, Tommy and Mother Bess are hiding, in anger and fear. Will they find the courage to come out of hiding?
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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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"Wideman has come into his full powers." The New York Times
"Wideman has a fluent command of the American language, written and spoken." The Washington Post
"Wideman moves into the very heart of the black experience in urban America." The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Wideman has a fluent command of the American language, written and spoken." The Washington Post
"Wideman moves into the very heart of the black experience in urban America." The Philadelphia Inquirer
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JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and most recently the story collection God's Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award. He teaches at Brown University.
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Hiding Place is the third book by John Wideman that I read (the first two being Brothers and Keepers, and Damballah), and it's the one that really solidified his place in my mind as one of our best living writers. He takes the title from an old Gospel tune, "I went to the rock to hide my face / and the rock cried out, no hiding place" and the feel of the book is like a Gospel or blues song. It takes place in modern Pittsburgh and revolves around the relationship between Bess and Tommy, who are family, a bond which Bess dismisses, but they come to an understanding about themselves and each other. The ending is not happy, but it's powerful and hopeful and reflects the struggle of doing what's right. A powerful, beautifully written book that I can't recommend enough.
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Clement listened to them talk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
long feet, killed nobody Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bruston Hill, Big Bob, Mother Bess, John French, Miss Bess, Homewood Avenue, Miss Claudine, Aunt Aida, Brass Rail, Henry Bow, Mother Owens, Sybela Owens, Bill Campbell, Elder Watt, Iron City, Tommy Lawson, Doo Wah Diddy, Finance Street, Kelley Street, Young People's Gospel Chorus New!
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Clement listened to them talk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
long feet, killed nobody Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bruston Hill, Big Bob, Mother Bess, John French, Miss Bess, Homewood Avenue, Miss Claudine, Aunt Aida, Brass Rail, Henry Bow, Mother Owens, Sybela Owens, Bill Campbell, Elder Watt, Iron City, Tommy Lawson, Doo Wah Diddy, Finance Street, Kelley Street, Young People's Gospel Chorus New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Philadelphia Fire: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
- A Glance Away by John Edgar Wideman in Front Matter
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- Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (Literary Conversations Series) by Bonnie TuSmith on 21 pages
- Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction by Keith Byerman on 6 pages
- Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff (Children of Poverty) by Daniel D. Challener on 4 pages
- Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama by Keith Clark on page 55, page 59, and page 70
- American Dream, American Nightmare: FICTION SINCE 1960 by Kathryn Hume on page 245, page 247, and Back Matter
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