Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
by John Edgar Wideman
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 061850964X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618509645
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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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
- Magus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1153065
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 061850964X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618509645
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- January 2005
- Pages
- 208
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