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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2020
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	Fiction - General / FICTION / African American & Black / Historical / FICTION / Literary / FICTION / Urban & Street Lit
ISBN:	9781982148843
EAN-Code:	9781982148843
Verlag:	Scribner Book Company
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 211 mm / B 137 mm / D 15 mm
Gewicht:	181 gr
Seiten:	208
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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 about identity after tragedy. “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 explores a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.