Losing Absalom

by Pate, Alexs D

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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1994
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1994
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LOSING ABSALOM.

LOSING ABSALOM.

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Minneapolis:: Coffee House Press,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dustjacket.. First printing. Young African American writer's highly praised first novel; it was named best first novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Dust jacket features a wonderful illustration of "Tombstones" a 1942 work by Jacob Lawrence.
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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Debute novel from Alexs Pate, who later went on to write the novelization of the Speilberg movie, "Amistad." One of only 6, 000 copies of the first edition. PRESENTATION COPY FROM ALLAN KORNBLUM PUBLISHER. TWO PAGE PRESENTATION LETTER LAID IN. .
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Losing Absalom; a novel

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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. Hardcover. 204p., near-fine first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. First novel by the African American performance artist.
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LOSING ABSALOM: A NOVEL

LOSING ABSALOM: A NOVEL

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LOSING ABSALOM.

LOSING ABSALOM.

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LOSING ABSALOM.

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LOSING ABSALOM

LOSING ABSALOM

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