Philadelphia Fire
Author(s): John Edgar Wideman
In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel.At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighbourhood and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event, a young boy seen running from the flames.One of Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire is about race, life and survival in urban America.
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books
- : 0.191
- : 01 May 2018
- : .591 Inches X 5.079 Inches X 7.795 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Edgar Wideman
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 256