All stories are true - John Edgar Wideman

'Unquestionably the foremost chronicler of the urban African-American experience. A master storyteller, Wideman is both a witness and a prophet' Caryl Phillips

'All Stories Are True comes at you at about 100mph with its head down. The stories are violent, difficult, full of rage . . . in this "snow of words" dealing with dispossession and despair, there is a lyrical impulse that simply will not lie down and be still' Sunday Times

'An extraordinary, virtuosic collection of short stories . . . His prose swoops and cajoles, whispers and hollers, pleads and accuses, at one moment precise and impeccably standard English, the next earthy and funky as the blues, always unpredictable but gliding effortlessly from style to style . . . John Edgar Wideman tells his stories right and their reality is never in doubt' Literary Review

'Wideman's collected short stories field a broad and immensely rich range of approaches . . . Writing really matters to Wideman. A marvellous collection' Time Out