Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 358 pages; Tight bright and fresh in clean crisp edged dust jacket. Special Advance edition, so indicated on the front panel of the dust jacket, with publisher's promotional materials laid in at front. Superficial shelf bump to the tail of the spine. Clean unmarked copy feels and appears unread and almost as new. NF/NF.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Hold Love Strong; [Advance Reader's Edition]

Publisher

Touchstone Publishers, New York

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

1416562036

ISBN 13

9781416562030

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition; First Printing.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

Struggling for survival in the grim urban community home he shares with his crack-addicted teen mother, young Abraham Singleton fears the loss of the family's escape from poverty when his promising basketball player uncle is arrested, in a tale that parallels the biblical story of Abraham.

Review

"A powerful and poignant story of the gallant Abraham who struggles on the night side of American society yet exudes a light of genuine hope." -- Dr. Cornel West

"The urgency of reading Matthew Aaron Goodman's work is that he complicates what is too often made unrealistically simple: our understanding of ourselves and our neighbors. That he does so with such profound beauty only makes the experience of Hold Love Strong ever more incredible. Everyone should pick up this book." -- asha bandele, author of Something Like Beautiful

"Matthew Aaron Goodman writes with tremendous heart and gorgeous lyricism....This story feels like a directive to its readers: Hold fast and true to the love you may know in this life. It takes an extraordinary writer to evoke such powerful emotion in a reader, and Matthew Aaron Goodman does it here with wisdom and grace." -- Thisbe Nissen, author of The Good People of New York

"At once intimate and epic, Hold Love Strong shines light on a world too often distorted or ignored. Goodman plumbs us into a narrative of devastating pain and searing tenderness, and he does so fiercely, with prose as bright and sharp as a blade." -- Carolina De Robertis, author of Invisible Mountain>

"What a poignant book. The younger generation offers a wonderful writer!" -- Nikki Giovanni, Poet

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