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Wideman, John Edgar.
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MOVE (Organization) -- Fiction.
Bombings -- Fiction.
Fires -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
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Wideman, John Edgar.
MOVE (Organization) -- Fiction.
Bombings -- Fiction.
Fires -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
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Philadelphia
fire
: a
novel
/ John Edgar Wideman ; with a new introduction by Imani Perry.
by
Wideman, John Edgar.
Scribner, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION WID
Subjects
MOVE (Organization) -- Fiction.
Bombings -- Fiction.
Fires -- Fiction.
Philadelphia
(Pa.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982148843 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st Scribner trade paperback ed.
Description:
xi, 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 1990 by Henry Holt & Company.
Summary:
Philadelphia
Fire
, now with a new introduction by prominent scholar and award-winning writer Imani Perry, is a masterful culturally significant work that takes on a 1985 police bombing in
Philadelphia
, which targeted the Black liberation group known as MOVE. At the heart of the
novel
is Cudjoe, a writer and exile returned to his old neighborhood, who becomes obsessed with the search for a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works,
Philadelphia
Fire
depicts a brutally honest journey through uniquely American despair.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Black fiction.
Other authors:
Perry, Imani, 1972-
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Adult Black Fiction
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