Brothers and Keepers - Hardcover

Wideman, John Edgar

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ISBN 10: 0850316138 ISBN 13: 9780850316131

Publisher: Allison & Busby, 1985

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Now in paperback, this is the story of the author and his younger brother who were raised by the same parents in the same environment. Today, John is a college professor and an acclaimed novelist, his brother is serving a life sentence for murder. The author searches for an answer to the searing question of why this is so.

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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

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