Losing Absalom
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelosingabsalom00alex
- ISBN-100425150135
- ISBN-139780425150139
- Goodreads2197244
- LibraryThing1191795
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- OCLC Control Number32882326
- Better World BooksO7-ALO-664
- Better World Books9780425150139
- Better World BooksO7-BFF-530
- Better World BooksW6-CBF-717
- Open LibraryOL9765877M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3566.A777 L67 1994
Description
Sonny Goodman may have hopped the “modern underground railroad called education” and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family’s dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves. Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate’s highly absorbing debut novel “rings with a truth as immediate as body counts in the headlines, as enduring as a classic tragedy.”—San Francisco Chronicle
First Sentence
SONNY STOOD in the Saturday sun, looking up at Midtown Hospital, which jutted up against the bright August morning like a gleaming silver-white monolith.
Excerpt
SONNY STOOD in the Saturday sun, looking up at Midtown Hospital, which jutted up against the bright August morning like a gleaming silver-white monolith.
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