{"product_id":"philadelphia-fire-9781982148843","title":"Philadelphia Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. \"Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) and Norman Mailer's \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Fire \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wideman, John Edgar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982148843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"John Edgar Wideman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962952233035,"sku":"9781982148843","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_9e9d91ba-2e9c-4a5f-9d8e-79ebcbff934b.jpg?v=1605742179","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/philadelphia-fire-9781982148843","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}