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PHILADELPHIA FIRE by Wideman, John Edgar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is PHILADELPHIA FIRE about?

From one of Americas premier writers of fiction (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the center of the story is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and his search for the lone survivor of the fire a young boy who was seen running from the flames. An impassioned, brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America, "Philadelphia Fire isn't a book you read so much as one you breathe" (San Francsisco Chronicle).

Who reads PHILADELPHIA FIRE?

Author

Wideman, John Edgar

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618509645

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.48 / 5 (504 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13