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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格式 EPUB ● 网页 256 ● ISBN 9781786892058 ● 出版者 Canongate Books ● 发布时间 2018 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6170351 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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