Two Cities: A Love Story

"Am I the only one who thinks John Edgar Wideman gets more credit than he deserves? Sure, he's produced some fine novels, and in exploring the nature of the black urban experience he's managed to make his own history almost mythological...[But] his work operates at an irredeemable distance, as if beneath the complicated surfaces of his language there is little of emotional consequence to be found....'Two Cities' [seems] somehow a recycled effort, dealing with material that Wideman has handled far more deftly in previous books.John Edgar Wideman is the author of 'Two Cities: A Love Story', published 1998 under ISBN 9780395857304 and ISBN 0395857309.