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"In freeing his voice from the confines of the novel form... [Wideman] has written what is possibly his most impressive work.... Each story moves far beyond the primary event on which it is focused.... Like [Jean] Toomer, Mr. Wideman has used a narrative laced with myth, superstition and dream sequences to create an elaborate poetic portrait of the lives of ordinary black people."Wideman, John Edgar is the author of 'Damballah', published 1998 under ISBN 9780395897973 and ISBN 0395897971.
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