Brothers and Keepers: One became a college professor and a prize winning novelist, the other was sentenced to life imprisonment (John Edgar Wideman) TP-New

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. John Edgar Wideman. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1984.