Woodholme
a Black man's story of growing up alone
by DeWayne Wickham
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DeWayne Wickham was just eight years old when his father murdered his mother and then killed himself. Woodholme is his poignant memoir about growing up haunted by this traumatic event, and how he eventually overcame the reality of their loss. A troublemaker in school who nearly ended up in jail, DeWayne found a home among the black caddies at an all-white Jewish country club in suburban Baltimore - Woodholme - an oasis from the strife of the civil rights era and his own problem-plagued life.
The encounters he had there helped him to accept responsibility as an unwed seventeen-year-old father, and finally to come to terms with the death of his parents. Gracefully written and wryly humorous, Woodholme is an evocative portrait of growing up black in the 1960s, a sensitive exploration of paternalism and paternity, and a deeply moving story of self-discovery.
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Woodholme: a Black man's story of growing up alone
1996, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
- Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.
0801854024 9780801854026
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Woodholme: a Black man's story of growing up alone
1995, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
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0374292833 9780374292836
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Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995.
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