Philadelphia Fire
by John Edgar Wideman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Seller
-
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
1990 FIRST EDITION Black author At once personal and political, this novel about being Black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Nostalgic Books & Elements (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23philadelphia1990
- Title
- Philadelphia Fire
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Tight, sound, and square
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012668
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- politics, race, black America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Black Author;
Terms of Sale
Nostalgic Books & Elements
About the Seller
Nostalgic Books & Elements
About Nostalgic Books & Elements
NB&E, prides itself on rescuing unique and nostalgic books that sometimes include an element. I provide detailed descriptions, multiple photographs, and wrap most dust jacket in a protective sleeve.
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Janice Dawson
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