{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Edgar Wideman's books include, among others, ?\u003ci\u003eLook for Me and I'll Be Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003eYou Made Me Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Histories\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003eWriting to Save a Life\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003eBrothers and Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003eFatheralong\u003c\/i\u003e, ?\u003ci\u003eHoop Roots\u003c\/i\u003e, and?\u003ci\u003eSent for You Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 Fellow and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. He divides his time between New York and France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510853406994,"sku":"9781982148843","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc031cc1-52dd-46ac-b30f-0bc2149c5bd5.jpg?v=1730936534","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/philadelphia-fire-9781982148843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}