Damballah
by Wideman, John Edgar
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0850315492
- ISBN 13
- 9780850315493
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Allison & Busby, Ltd. , 1984. First U.K. Edition, First Printing.
SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. A collection of stories tracing the fortunes of a black family in Homewood, a black district of Pittsburgh, and the first in Wideman's Homewood trilogy.
Published in the U.K., this is the first hardcover edition, following publication of a paperback edition in the U.S.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 205 pages.
CONDITION: A Fine copy, with a small bump to the spine head, in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
Synopsis
This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--with grace, courage, and dignity.
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- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 768
- Title
- Damballah
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0850315492
- ISBN 13
- 9780850315493
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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