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Philadelphia Fire : a Novel by John Edgar Wideman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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199 pages ; 24 cm Eleven people - five of them children - are killed in west Philadelphia when 6221 Osage Avenue is bombed out of existence. One small boy is seen to escape the fire. From his life of self-exile on an island in the Aegean, Cudjoe mourns the child until it becomes an obsession, leading him home, forcing him to face up to his own profound alienation and to the wrenching realities of his native land. He searches for the boy and, as he does so, he searches out his own past. Reconstructing his life plunges him backwards into memories both personal and communal, forwards inch by inch into a city fast becoming a nightmare

Who reads Philadelphia Fire : a Novel?

Author

John Edgar Wideman

Publisher

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805012668

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.48 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14