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Philadelphia Fire

By Wideman, John Edgar

Philadelphia Fire Historical Fiction

Philadelphia Fire

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One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel about identity after tragedy. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that explores a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2020-10-06
Publication Date:
2020-10-06
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1982148845
ISBN13:
9781982148843
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
181 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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