Fever (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Wideman, John Edgar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140143475 ISBN 13: 9780140143478

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

Synopsis

By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of language that rests lightly on its carefully foundation.

About this title

About the Author:

John Edgar Wideman is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, which have received two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and a National Book Award nomination. In addition to his authorial career, he is a professor at Brown University. His latest book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, was published in 2016.

From Library Journal:

In this collection Wideman shows he knows how to give a story place in both physical and psychic terms. In "Rock River" he lays out a mangy dog of a town tucked somewhere in the foothills of the Southwest. Here suicide seems as much a part of the terrain as the "thickets of boulders," dry riverbeds, and dusty roads that define the hopelessness of the landscape. In "Concert," place is primarily the self, as the narrator (who remains unidentified) unravels an interior monologue that becomes the warp upon which the strains of a musical performance are woven. Wideman also shows he has a wide range of voices: several of the stories are told from a child's point of view and one from that of a hip literary critic. There are echoes of Faulkner in the post-Joycean narrative methods and revelations of consciousness. This is the kind of adventuresome writing that keeps one awake.
- Francis Poole, Kentucky Wesleyan Coll., Owensboro
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140143475
• ISBN 13: 9780140143478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176