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Hardcover: 9780805012668, Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95
Paperback: 9780618509645, Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 26, 2005), cover price $13.95; and 9780679736509, Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $12.00
Philadelphia Fire
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Product Description: "A passionate, angry and formally fascinating novel of urban disintegration."
-- The New York Times Book Review
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 self-imposed exile, obsessed with finding the lone boy who was seen running from the flames.
"A book brimming over with brutal, emotional honesty and moments of beautiful prose lyricism."
-- Charles Johnson, Washington Post Book World
"A blaze of rage...Wideman's genius for impassioned imagery triumphs and Philadelphia Fire delivers its message with a careening momentum and astonishing precision.... Wideman [is] our most powerful and accomplished artist of the urban black world."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Like the Russian master [Dostoevsky], Wideman probes the torments of the soul.... [He] is fashioning some of the most powerful literature today." -- U.S. News & World Report
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