Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, 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
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10584734-75
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1990
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