Brothers and keepers
by John Edgar Wideman
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The author examines his brother's life in comparison to his own and asks himself why they are so different, one a college professor, one sentenced to life imprisonment. A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, this is the author's seminal memoir about two brothers, one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder. He recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the American prison system. A gripping, unsettling account, it weighs the bonds of blood, tenderness, and guilt that connect the author to his brother and measures the distance that lies between them.
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Brothers and keepers
2005, Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Brothers and keepers
1995, Vintage Books
in English
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Brothers and Keepers
December 1992, Peter Smith Pub Inc
Hardcover
in English
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Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1984.
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"I heard the news first in a phone call from my mother."
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