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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982148843ISBN-10:1982148845UPC:9781982148843Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, African American & Black, Urban & Street LitBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC86F9G49T
Philadelphia Fire
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982148843ISBN-10:1982148845UPC:9781982148843Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, African American & Black, Urban & Street LitBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC86F9G49T
John Edgar Wideman's books include, among others, ?Look for Me and I'll Be Gone, ?You Made Me Love You, American Histories, ?Writing to Save a Life, ?Brothers and Keepers, ?Philadelphia Fire, ?Fatheralong, ?Hoop Roots, and?Sent for You Yesterday. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He is a MacArthur...
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