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ReubenJohn Edgar Wideman

Reuben

John Edgar Wideman
1987215 pages
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4 editions · 2 languages
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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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4 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 1988
    Penguin Books · 215 pages · 9780140105957
  • Other · English · 1988
    Viking · 215 pages · 9780670820085
  • Other · English · 1987
    H. Holt · 215 pages · 9780805003758
  • Paperback · French · 1991
    Gallimard · 253 pages · 9782070732340
African American lawyersAfrican AmericansFictionNew York Times reviewedAfrican americans, fictionLawyers, fictionFiction, general