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From “one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other... read more
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On a day like this the big toe of Zivanias had failed him.
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- John Edgar Wideman (Author)
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Publication Date: 1990
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- Pen/Faulkner Award (1991: Fiction)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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