Nate
A fast-moving novel that follows a young Black man through the military, family rupture, college, and city life with anger and dark wit.
angermilitary experiencefamilyBlack male experience
Work Information
A furious, funny novel that never lets its energy slacken.
The novel piles up Nate’s reckless descent and resistance against a backdrop of institutional violence and absurdity. Black humor and rage surface at the same time.
Review Summaries
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It is read as a radical yet precise novel that cuts through social contradictions with both humor and pain.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Back House Books
- Published
- 2006-01-30
- Pages
- 411 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780967195100
- ISBN-10
- 0967195101
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Action & Adventure
What is Nate? A literary phenomenon. Eloquent and elegant. Poetically melancholy. Vindictively brutal. Raw. Raging. Infuriating.