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Philadelphia Fire

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Philadelphia Fire, now with a new introduction by prominent scholar and award-winning writer Imani Perry, is a masterful culturally significant work that takes on a 1985 police bombing in Philadelphia, which targeted the Black liberation group known as MOVE. At the heart of the novel is Cudjoe, a writer and exile returned to his old neighborhood, who becomes obsessed with the search for a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire depicts a brutally honest journey through uniquely American despair.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781982148843
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 208
  • Udgivet:
  • 6. oktober 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 137x15x211 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 181 g.
  • BLACK WEEK
Leveringstid: Ukendt - mangler pt.

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Philadelphia Fire, now with a new introduction by prominent scholar and award-winning writer Imani Perry, is a masterful culturally significant work that takes on a 1985 police bombing in Philadelphia, which targeted the Black liberation group known as MOVE. At the heart of the novel is Cudjoe, a writer and exile returned to his old neighborhood, who becomes obsessed with the search for a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire depicts a brutally honest journey through uniquely American despair.

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