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In a study that is part autobiography and part social history, the author documents the life of his younger brother, Robby, who has been imprisoned for life without parole, discussing the reasons for his own success and his brother's tragedy
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"Like the Russian master [Dostoevsky], Wideman probes the torment of the soul....[He] is fashioning some of the most powerful literature today."--U.S. News and World Report
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Powerful autobiographical soul-searching
John Edgar Wideman and his younger brother, Robby, were raised by the same parents in the same environment - the Black ghetto of Homewood, in Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania. But today, John, a Rhodes Scholar, is a college professor and a highly acclaimed novelist; Robby is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. In Brothers and Keepers, Wideman searches for an answer to the searing question: 'Why Robby there behind bars - why me here?' "One of the best American writers of any generation" Caryl Phillips; "Powerful...guaranteed to shock and sadden" Washington Post
John Edgar Wideman and his younger brother, Robby, were raised by the same parents in the same environment - the Black ghetto of Homewood, in Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania. But today, John, a Rhodes Scholar, is a college professor and a highly acclaimed novelist; Robby is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. In Brothers and Keepers, Wideman searches for an answer to the searing question: 'Why Robby there behind bars - why me here?' "One of the best American writers of any generation" Caryl Phillips; "Powerful...guaranteed to shock and sadden" Washington Post
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679756949
- ISBN 13 9780679756941
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