| Two Cities: A Love Story Contributor(s): Wideman, John Edgar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618001859 ISBN-13: 9780618001859 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: From the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice comes this redemptive, healing love story that celebrates the survival of an endangered urban black community and the ways in which people redeem themselves. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | City Life - Fiction | African American - Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed in fourteen previous acclaimed books. It is a story of bridges -- bridges spanning the rivers of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, bridges arching over the rifts that have divided our communities, our country, our hearts. Narrated in the bluesy voices of its three main characters, Two Citiesis a simple love story, but it is also about the survival of an endangered black urban community and the ways that people discover for redeeming themselves in a society that is failing them. With its indelible images of confrontation and outrage, matched in equal measure by lasting impressions of hope, Two Cities is a compassionate, lacerating, and nourishing novel. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wideman, John Edgar: - 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 the story collection God's Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award. |