β Scribed by John Edgar Wideman
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Paperback, 245 pages
Published: 1990
Edition: Canongate Books, The Canons (2018)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1991)
In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and James Baldwin' s Go Tell It On the Mountain comes a powerful and shattering novel about being black in white America, by one of America's preeminent fiction masters.
In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighbourhood and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event, a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire is about race, life and survival in urban America.
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