9780805011845 - Fever: Twelve Stories von Wideman, John Edgar (21 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear. May contain some writing and or highlighting within.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Henry Holt October 1989 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Twelve short stories. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding.

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on laid-in bookplate. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Henry Holt, 1989. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with very light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light sticker residue on the front cover.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Zustand: very good, very good. First Edition. First Printing. 161, notes.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Topedge with a tiny nick, spine ends slightly bumped, near fine in a lightly tanned very good dust jacket with a few scratches on the rear panel and slight edgewear.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Advance excerpt only. 13pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Featuring the short story "The Statue of Liberty" from *Fever*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at the spinal extremities. A collection of short stories.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First edition. A collection of short stories. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has a tear to the top of the front panel Signed and inscribed by Wideman on the title page: "To Heidi, May You enjoy these stories. Good Luck, John Wideman.". Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition with a full number line. Here is an excerpt from a review by Fritz Gysin:"Fever" is a fascinating collage of communal voices and visions, commemorating the black experience of suffering and triumph during the yellow fever epidemic that hit the city of Philadelphia in 1793, with occasional glances back to the American Revolution and forward to the 1980s. It is, as the author himself has noted, a "meditation on history" (Fever 162),1 albeit one that differs greatly from Sherley Anne Williams' story with a similar title.2 Its two epigraphs announce the author's intentions and some of his figurative strategies. The first one is an ironic dedication to Matthew Carey, the Irish immigrant publisher and official chronicler of the disease, whose potboiler contained derogatory remarks denying the unselfish and indispensable contribution of the black nurses, carters, and undertakers to the fight against the plague (Carey 76ff.); the second quotes an earlier comment by the wealthy merchant Richard Morris on the central position of Philadelphia which is "to the United States what the heart is to the human body in circulating the blood" (127). Relying on contemporary responses of those African Americans denigrated by Carey, as well as [End Page 715] on more recent historical evaluations, the author once again intends to set the record straight by selecting and collecting snippets from old texts, some white, but most black, and by associating them with recreated fragments of scenes, reports, stories, comments, arguments, insights from the past and the present. By means of an imaginative yet tightly controlled blending of tropes, he sketches a vision of the personified temporary capital of the United States as the victim of an affliction whose origins and meaning are extended far beyond the fields of medicine, science, and politics.One's understanding of this story is helped considerably by a certain familiarity with the history of the plague," 176 pp.

Hardcover. [12], 161, [3] p. Notes. From Wikipedia: "John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.Wideman was born on June 14, 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the East End. He graduated from Pittsburgh's Peabody High School, then attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he became an All-Ivy League forward on the basketball team. He was the second African-American to win a Rhodes Scholarship (New College, Oxford University, England), graduating in 1966. He also graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. A widely-celebrated writer and the winner of many literary awards, he is the first to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. In 2000, he won the O. Henry Award for his short story "Weight", published in The Callaloo Journal. Following the publication of the Homewood trilogy, the New York Times proclaimed John Edgar Wideman, "one of America's premier writers of fiction." He has taught at the University of Wyoming, University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and chaired the African American Studies Department, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. He currently is a professor at Brown University." Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Fiorst printing [stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and some rubbing at the crown. A collection of short stories.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.