The Nation, October 4th, 1986
The Pain of Being Two
Wideman produced one more novel during the 1970s--The Lynchers, a bareknuckles survey of the vigilante mind--but it wasn't until the first volume of The Homewood Trilogy, in 1981, that he found some of the answers to the questions posed in the earlier books. In his introduction to the trilogy, he describes a trip home for his grandmoter's funeral in 1973 as "the beginning of these three books. As we sat late, late into the night, fueled by drink, food, talk, by sadness and bitter loss, by the healing presence of others who shared our grief, our history, the stories of ...
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