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The author examines his brother's life in comparison to his own and asks himself why they are so different, one a college professor, one sentenced to life imprisonment. A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, this is the author's seminal memoir about two brothers, one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Peter Smith Pub Inc, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Allison & Busby
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805033076
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