New York: Henry Holt, 1990 In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. This novel won the Pen/Faulkner Award for the author in 1990, which is the second Pen/Faulkner award the author has won. Based loosely on the horrific events that occurred in Philadelphia when the Police Department bombed the radical headquarters of an African-American group. Cudjoe is an African-American living on an Aegean island, tending bar in self-imposed and welcomed exile from his family and friends. He becomes obsessed with the tragedy and the one child who suppposedly escaped. He returns home to find the boy, and in the process, to find himself once again. Light scratch and small crease on rear of dj,. First Edition- First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/Fine.

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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: Nothing Like A Good Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M103
Title: Philadelphia Fire
Author: Wideman, John Edgar
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New As New
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition- First Printing
ISBN 10: 0805012664
ISBN 13: 9780805012668
Publisher: New York: Henry Holt, 1990
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: 1990
Keywords: AFRO AMERICANS FICTION MYSTERY MYST2
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery; Author W;

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