cover image Fever

Fever

John Edgar Wideman. Penguin Books, $13 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014347-8

``Of the 12 stories in Wideman's wide-ranging new collection, six have never been previously published, and most are standouts. Wideman excels in a variety of prose styles, adopting the points of view of both black and white characters, telling some stories entirely in dialogue, others in unrelieved exposition,'' stated PW . (Oct.)