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Philadelphia Fire: a novel [inscribed & signed]

Philadelphia Fire: a novel [inscribed & signed]

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Philadelphia Fire: a novel [inscribed & signed]

by Wideman, John Edgar

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ISBN 13
9780805012668
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Hardcover. 199p., personal inscription signed by Wideman on title page, spotting to top edge else a good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket.

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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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Philadelphia Fire: a novel [inscribed & signed]
Author
Wideman, John Edgar
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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ISBN 10
0805012664
ISBN 13
9780805012668
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1990
Bookseller catalogs
African American; Modern first edition; Pennsylvania;

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