Introduction: Centering on Eddie Lawson, a young black man wracked by his inadequacies as a son, a brother, and a lover, the novel tells the story of one day in his life. On an Easter Sunday, Eddie returns homeùhaving spent a year in a voluntary drug rehabilitation clinicùonly to learn, as have innumerable other protagonists of modern fiction, that you cannot go home again. In the course of this fateful day, a day symbolic of renewal, Eddie encounters the death of his old love...

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Personen: Wideman, John Edgar

Schlagwörter: Novellen