Description
Title: Two Cities: A Love Story
Author: John Edgar Wideman
ISBN: 9780395857304
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 242
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : “Two Cities” is a redemptive, healing love story that brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed over the course of his acclaimed career. It tells of three souls lost and found. Kassima is a young widow, mourning her husband and sons, lost to the violence of Pittsburgh streets. Robert Jones is the gentle man who yearns to break through the barriers Kassima has erected to protect herself from new loss. Old Mr. Mallory is Kassima’s tenant, a self-eduated eccentric who roams the streets with his ancient camera in a shopping bag. It is Mr. Mallory’s legacy that finally brings the lovers together. A box of his photographs — haunting pictures that document a half-centukry of life in the black neighborhoods of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh — provides the unexpected means of bridging the rifts that divide communities and hearts.
Narrated in the bluesy voices of its three main characters, “Two Cities” recalls the gripping drama of “Philadelphia Fire” and the emotional resonance of “Fatheralong.” Matching indelible images of confrontation and outrage in equal measure with lasting impression of hope, “Two Cities” is a compassionate and lacerating novel.
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