Philadelphia Fire: a novel
by Wideman, John Edgar
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670820091
- ISBN 13
- 9780670820092
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
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
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120523
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire: a novel
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670820091
- ISBN 13
- 9780670820092
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Modern first edition; 1990S;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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