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Author:

Wideman, John Edgar, author.

Title:

Philadelphia fire : a novel / John Edgar Wideman ; with a new introduction by Imani Perry.

Edition:

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 196 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

MOVE (Organization)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Bombings--Fiction.
Fires--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Other Authors:

Perry, Imani, 1972- writer of introduction.

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.

ISBN:

9781982148843
1982148845

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1139765527

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)