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Losing Absalom
by Pate, Alexs D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1566890179
- ISBN 13
- 9781566890175
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204 pp. Underlining and marginalia on about 15 pages. The jacket is lightly rubbed along the upper and lower edges. The author's first novel.
Synopsis
Alexs Pate has written two critically acclaimed novels, Finding Makeba (Putnam/Berkley) and Losing Absalom, which won the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and a 1995 Minnesota Creative Writing Award for best fiction. Pate teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Macaleser College.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010883
- Title
- Losing Absalom
- Author
- Pate, Alexs D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1566890179
- ISBN 13
- 9781566890175
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction - African-American
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