- African American lawyers, African Americans, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
Reuben is an aging, wizened, slightly humpbacked black man. He lives in an abandoned trailer so cluttered with the detritus of his sixty years that visitors can scarcely find him amid the litter. Yet Reuben is also intelligent-street smart and plain smart-kind, thoughtful and possessed of an extraordinarily sharp legal mind. As a lawyer, he is the go between for the poor black of Homewood who must deal with the authorities' downtown. (Taken from inside front jacket).
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- GALLIMARD, H. Holt, Viking
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780805003758
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