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HIDING PLACE (Homewood Trilogy)
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HIDING PLACE (Homewood Trilogy) Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by John Edgar Wideman

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A man lay dead in a parking lot. Tommy didn't kill him, but the police will shoot first and ask questions later. Mother Bess is kin, but she is a crazy, mean old lady hiding out high about the Homewood streets--streets that have taken away everything she ever loved. Together, Tommy and Mother Bess are hiding, in anger and fear. Will they find the courage to come out of hiding?

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  • Title HIDING PLACE (Homewood Trilogy)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-07-06
  • Bookseller's Inventory # H11I-00622
  • ISBN 9780395897980 / 039589798X
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.52 x 0.41 in (21.62 x 14.02 x 1.04 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98007930
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

A man lay dead in a parking lot. Tommy didn't kill him, but the police will shoot first and ask questions later. Mother Bess is kin, but she is a crazy, mean old lady hiding out high about the Homewood streets--streets that have taken away everything she ever loved. Together, Tommy and Mother Bess are hiding, in anger and fear. Will they find the courage to come out of hiding?

Media reviews

"Wideman has come into his full powers." The New York Times

"Wideman has a fluent command of the American language, written and spoken." The Washington Post

"Wideman moves into the very heart of the black experience in urban America." The Philadelphia Inquirer

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