Philadelphia Fire
by John Edgar Wideman
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
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Synopsis
From one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the center of the story is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and his search for the lone survivor of the fire a young boy who was seen running from the flames. An impassioned, brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America, "Philadelphia Fire isn't a book you read so much as one you breathe" (San Francsisco Chronicle).
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Philadelphia Fire
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Ed.
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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