Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Seller
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing.
SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. "Philadelphia Fire" won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and a 1991 American Book Award.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 199 pages.
CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this award-winning novel about race in America.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 738
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Fiction; African-American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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