The Boston Globe, October 29th, 1989
FEVER Twelve Stories. By John Edgar Wideman. 161 pp. Holt. $16.95. Long admired for the force of his writing, John Edgar Wideman relies upon a stainless-steel lyricism to envelop his reader, and that grace of language renders his fiction remarkable beyond mere plot and structure. It is clear from the careful mix of the elements in the stories in "Fever" that the man knows the artifice of a short story -- the self-imposed constraints, the quiet groundswell of epiphany. But unlike so many contemporary practitioners, Wideman doesn't tailor his vision to fit the margins of short fiction. He can br...
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