The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22nd, 1993
Fever (1989) and Dumballah (1981), two previously published collections of stories by John Edgar Wideman, are bound together here with ten new stories entitled All Stories Are True. These new stories alone are worth the price of this volume. Once again Wideman loops us in and out of his characters' lives, of his grandmother's, and of his imprisoned brother and son, once again the rolling lyricism of his prose reminds us lives are visceral, pulsing, that lives must be heard, their stories told with a complexity of perception which defies the generalizing imposed by a society which refuses audit...
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