'This is truly inimitable storytelling. No one writes an American horror story like John Edgar Wideman' - Observer 'Master of language . Wideman has always been less interested in what a story tells than how it gets told, how the telling shapes our perception of our world. In works that erode the boundaries between fiction, memoir and essay, Wideman explores the impulses that drive storytelling itself, returning to some enduring themes and formal devices' - New York Times Book Review 'Wideman is one of the great tragedians of American literature . This collection, Wideman's artistic consummation, is also the site of his unravelling, and there are moments of unbearable vulnerability when the author puts aside his great gifts to lie down in the rag and bone shop of the heart' - Wall Street Journal 'Philosophical, ruminative and alive with wordplay . In each story, Wideman illustrates just how intricately the past is interwoven with the present, and there is plenty here to satisfy fans of captivating literary storytelling' - Booklist (starred review) 'A book that demands and deserves attention' - Scotsman ' Look for Me and I'll Be Gone , a short-story collection that draws fluidly from his personal life, is John Edgar Wideman's extended farewell to outrage . The book's style is so deceptively modest it stares you down and waits for you to realise it's cut your heart out while you coasted along on the calm surface of the syntax into a seething indictment of every aspect of society' - 4Columns.