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Philadelphia Fire
Philadelphia Fire
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Philadelphia Fire is the most ambitious, most highly praised, and best-selling work of fiction by "one of America's premier writers of fiction" (The York Times). Based on the 1985 bombing police of a West Philadelphia row house owned the Afrocentric cult Move, it tells of Cudjoe, a writer who returns to his old neighborhood after a decade of sel...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679736509
ISBN-10: 0679736506
Publication Date: 11/5/1991
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Time magazine said this book is "reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'".


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