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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Wideman, John Edgar.     Subjects     MOVE (Organization) -- Fiction.     Bombings -- Fiction.     Fires -- Fiction.     Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wideman, John Edgar.       by title:      Philadelphia fire : ...       by call number:      FICTION WID     Search the Web     Wideman, John Edgar.     MOVE (Organization) -- Fiction.     Bombings -- Fiction.     Fires -- Fiction.     Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

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- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION WID Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION WID Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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