{"product_id":"9781982148843","title":"Philadelphia Fire: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eWideman, John Edgar\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eScribner\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/6\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAward-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 \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 explores a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43404889981183,"sku":"9781982148843","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_fe73ba9c-3c68-4839-93bc-ad078ac31612.jpg?v=1771431549","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781982148843","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}