{"product_id":"philadelphia-fire-book-john-edgar-wideman-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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50262537601297,"sku":"CIN1982148845G","price":4.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51614212030737,"sku":"NIN9781982148843","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53118711595281,"sku":"CIN1982148845VG","price":4.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982148845.jpg?v=1751188092","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/philadelphia-fire-book-john-edgar-wideman-9781982148843","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}