Ebook {Epub PDF} Losing Absalom by Alexs D. Pate

Losing Absalom - Alexs D. Pate - Sonny, who has escaped the streets of North Philadelphia for a corporate job in Minneapolis, returns home only to be held captive by history and broken dreams in a novel about the struggles of one African-American family Losing Absalom - Alexs D. Pate - Sonny, who has escaped the streets of North.  · Alexs Pate has written two critically acclaimed novels, Finding Makeba (Putnam/Berkley) and Losing Absalom, which won the First Novelist Award by the Black Cau. Losing Absalom: a novel Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item Losing Absalom: a novel by Pate, Alexs D., Publication date Topics African American families, City and town life, Cancer, Father and child Publisher Minneapolis: Coffee House Press Collection.

Alexs D. Pate Alexs D. Pate Title: [PDF] Unlimited ↠ Losing Absalom: by Alexs D. Pate ↠ Posted by: Alexs D. Pate Published: T+ Alexs Pate has written two critically acclaimed novels, Finding Makeba (Putnam/Berkley) and Losing Absalom, which won the First Novelist Award by the Black Cau. Losing Absalom is the debut novel by Alexs Pate. The book was first published on April 1, through Coffee House Press and follows an African-American family's life and daily struggles in a North Philadelphia inner city. Plot. In the novel, Absalom Goodman is dying from brain cancer in the hospital where his thoughts drift in and out of.

Losing Absalom is the gripping story of one man, one family and one community. Their tale of contemporary tragedy and uncertain triumph is, however, as relevant as tomorrow's headlines. Like many of his generation, Absalom Goodman worked all his life to keep his family together, to create a home where his children would grow up with decent values and a solid future. Alexs Pate has written two critically acclaimed novels, Finding Makeba (Putnam/Berkley) and Losing Absalom, which won the First Novelist Award by the Black Cau. Alexs D. Pate opens his first novel Losing Absalom with an Old Tes-tament epigraph that exquisitely captures the profound complexity of parental love. In a plaintive wail King David grieves for his dead son: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" Pate's masterful.