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Woodholme: A Black Man´s Story of Growing Up Alone
Dewayne Wickham
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Description for Woodholme: A Black Man´s Story of Growing Up Alone
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This autobiography tells the story of DeWayne Wickham, who at the age of eight witnessed his father murder his mother and then kill himself. It relates how the author grew up haunted by this event, and how he eventually overcame the reality of the loss of his parents. DeWayne's troubled schooldays are related, as are his experiences as a caddie at an all-white Jewish country club in southern Baltimore. The encounters he had there helped him to accept responsibility as an unmarried 17-year old father, and finally to come to terms with the death of his parents. This work is ... Read more
This autobiography tells the story of DeWayne Wickham, who at the age of eight witnessed his father murder his mother and then kill himself. It relates how the author grew up haunted by this event, and how he eventually overcame the reality of the loss of his parents. DeWayne's troubled schooldays are related, as are his experiences as a caddie at an all-white Jewish country club in southern Baltimore. The encounters he had there helped him to accept responsibility as an unmarried 17-year old father, and finally to come to terms with the death of his parents. This work is ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801854026
SKU
KRS0018150
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Dewayne Wickham
DeWayne Wickham is a syndicated columnist for 'USA Today' and the Gannett News Service. A former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, he lives in Owings Mills, Maryland.
Reviews for Woodholme: A Black Man´s Story of Growing Up Alone
"DeWayne Wickham joins the ranks of fine African-American journalists with this remarkable memoir. It is as though Wickham and his baby boomer colleagues
Jill Nelson, Nathan McCall, and Lorene Cary
have set about defining the decades of their coming of age through autobiography."
'Boston Sunday Globe' "Woodholme is rich with details about what life was like for a young black boy growing up, ... Read more
Jill Nelson, Nathan McCall, and Lorene Cary
have set about defining the decades of their coming of age through autobiography."
'Boston Sunday Globe' "Woodholme is rich with details about what life was like for a young black boy growing up, ... Read more