Reuben
By: John Edgar Wideman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: African American lawyers; African Americans; Fiction
Description: Reuben is an aging, wizened, slightly humpbacked black man. He lives in an abandoned trailer so cluttered with the detritus of his sixty years that visitors can scarcely find him amid the litter. Yet Reuben is also intelligent-street smart and plain smart-kind, thoughtful and possessed of an extraordinarily sharp legal mind. As a lawyer, he is the go between for the poor black of Homewood who must deal with the authorities' downtown. (Taken from inside front jacket).