Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by Wideman, John Edgar
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by Wideman, John Edgar

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is...
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Author: John Edgar Wideman
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by Wideman, John Edgar

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

$31.27
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by Wideman, John Edgar

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

$31.27
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expos " (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till, chose to display her son's brutalized face in a glass-topped casket, "so the world can see what they did to my baby."

Emmett Till's murder and his mother's refusal to allow his story to be forgotten have become American legends. But one darkly significant twist in the Till legend is rarely mentioned: Louis Till, Emmett's father, Mamie's husband, a soldier during World War II, was executed in Italy for committing rape and murder.

In 1955, when he and Emmett were each only fourteen years old, Wideman saw a horrific photograph of dead Emmett's battered face. Decades later, upon discovering that Louis Till had been court-martialed and hanged, he was impelled to investigate the tragically intertwined fates of father and son. Writing to Save a Life is "part exploration and part meditation, a searching account of Wideman's] attempt to learn more about the short life of Louis Till" (The New York Times Book Review) and shine light on the truths that have remained in darkness.

Wideman, the author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, "is a master of quiet meditation...and his book is remarkable for its insight and power" (SFGate). An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is essential and "impressive" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) reading--an engaging, enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.

Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781501147296

About the Author
John Edgar Wideman's books include American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop Dreams, and Sent for You Yesterday. He is a MacArthur Fellow, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He divides his time between New York and France.
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