Sent For You Yesterday, by John Edgar Wideman (used)

 "He can make an ordinary scene sing the blues like nobody's business."

- The New York Times

Winner of the prestigious P.E.N./Faulkner Award for fiction, Sent for You Yesterday is a stunning novel by the author of the bestselling Brothers and Keepers, which was selected by The New lork Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1984. "Mr. Wideman returns to the ghetto where he was raised and transforms it into a magical location...[In] Homewood's communal life from the wild and vital 1920s through the drugged and debilitated 70s...

Mr. Wideman establishes a mythological and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands of a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology...."

— The New York Times Book Review

"Like Faulkner's, Wideman's prose fiction is vivid and demanding - shuttling unpredictably between places, narrators and times, dwelling for a paragraph on the surface of things, then sneaking a key event into a clause that springs on the reader like a booby trap.

Sent for You Yesterday is a book to be savored... that's exciting."

- Washington Post Book World

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