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Reuben (novel)

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1987

Pages
  
215

Originally published
  
1987

Page count
  
215

Publisher
  
Henry Holt and Company

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

ISBN
  
0-395-85730-9

Author
  
John Edgar Wideman

Genre
  
Novel

OCLC
  
39045168

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Reuben is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s.

The novel tells the story of Reuben, an aging African-American who lives in an abandoned trailer, but is a lawyer and go-between on behalf of poor blacks in Homewood, a neighborhood of the East End.

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Reuben (novel) Wikipedia