Philadelphia Fire

Author:   John Edgar Wideman
Publisher:   Mariner Books
ISBN:  

9780618509645


Pages:   199
Publication Date:   01 January 2005
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   John Edgar Wideman
Publisher:   Mariner Books
Imprint:   Mariner Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780618509645


ISBN 10:   061850964
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   01 January 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and the story collection God's Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award.

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