Philadelphia Fire
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9780618509645
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Product Name:
Philadelphia Fire
Author:
John Edgar Wideman
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1/26/2005 0:00
ISBN:
061850964X
Pages:
199
SKU:
9780618509645
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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).
The book, Philadelphia Fire [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780618509645 in Paperback by Wideman, John Edgar may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
The book, Philadelphia Fire [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780618509645 in Paperback by Wideman, John Edgar may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.