Writing to Save a Life
The Louis Till File
$34.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2017
Summary
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family–civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis–shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501147296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501147293 |
| Author: | John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher: | Scribner Book Company |
| Imprint: | Scribner Book Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
” Writing to Save a Life is a mercurial coupling of fact and fiction from a profound writer.
“A quietly harrowing postscript to the tragedy of Emmett Till [and] a searching account of [Wideman’s] attempt to learn more about the short life of Louis Till.” -New York Times Book Review
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman’s books include American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop Dreams, and Sent for You Yesterday. He is a MacArthur Fellow, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He divides his time between New York and France.
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