John E Wideman (43 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. One 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. In 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 Philadelphia Fire 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. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Time) and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Philadelphia Fire is 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. One 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. In 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 Philadelphia Fire 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. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Time) and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Philadelphia Fire is 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. One 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. In 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 Philadelphia Fire 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. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Time) and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Philadelphia Fire is 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. One 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. In 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 Philadelphia Fire 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. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Time) and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Philadelphia Fire is 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.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slight edge wear. Dust on head and tail of the book. Pages are clean. Book is tight. Jacket condition is very good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Good trade paperback, light wear.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 256pp 0.69lb 8.0x5.1x0.6in.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Orange paper wraps with green and purple lettering. Hint of edgewear. Text is clean and white, no marks. Stories by Ha Jin, Robert Stone, Carolyn Cooke, Jonathan Franzen, Michelle Cliff, Richard Bausch, Cynthia Ozick, Karen E. Bender, Leonard Michaels, Lydia Davis, Junot Diaz, Donald Hall, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Clyde Edgerton, June Spence, Jeffrey Eugenides, Pam Durban, Michael Byers, Tobias Wolff, Alyson Hagy, and Tim Gautreaux. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good. See description and scans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. First Paperback Edition and First Printing. Octavo, orange printed perfect-bound wraps, xvii + 381 pp. Very Good; small closed tear at lower left, small dog-ear at upper right, a few spots at page edges. See scans. Otherwise, bright, tight, sturdy. 21 short stories, selected from American and Canadian magazines, in this annual series. L201.…

Paperback. Condition: used: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDContemporary Fiction: Good Ex-library Trade Paperback with library pocket and stamp.

Paperback. Condition: used: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDContemporary Fiction: Good Ex-library Trade Paperback with library pocket and stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. STiff unmarked books in crisp covers.; 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches; 381 pages.

Condition: Good.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Condition: Brand New. 336 pages. 8.66x5.67x1.26 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First owl. Very good in wrappers. 1.5" crease at back bottom right corner of book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.