Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman

Sent for You Yesterday is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1970s. The novel tells the story of Albert Wilkes, who after seven years on the run, returns to Homewood, an African American neighborhood of the East End. Sent for You Yesterday is the third volume of what some critics call The Homewood Trilogy. The other books are Damballah and Hiding Place. In 1992 the University of Pittsburgh Press published the three in one volume under the title The Homewood Books. In its preface Wideman admits discomfort with the term trilogy because it implies a plan of linking the volumes, and he did not compose the books that way.

The 2136th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (PEN/Faulkner)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
Sent for You Yesterday Paperback 1353487 $19.95 $2.76 1988
Sent for You Yesterday Hardcover 3673881 $98.14 $12.00 1984
Sent for You Yesterday Paperback 3507299 $107.09 $3.48 1998
SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY Paperback 1611223 $27.08 $4.60 1998