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Philadelphia Fire : A Novel by MOVE (Organization);Perry, Imani;Wideman, John Edgar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Philadelphia Fire : A Novel about?

One of John Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. "Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man " ( Time ) and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song , Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.

Who reads Philadelphia Fire : A Novel?

Author

MOVE (Organization);Perry, Imani;Wideman, John Edgar

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982148850

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction