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Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine /Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805003754
- ISBN 13
- 9780805003758
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Fitzwilliam , New Hampshire, United States
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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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- AardBooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MAIN022707I
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0805003754
- ISBN 13
- 9780805003758
- Publisher
- Holt
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 8vo, 215pp, y, signed
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