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The Absconder Kindle Edition

by Kenneth C. Crowe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A brilliant, athletic young man with great potential winds up spending 28 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Prison teaches him poetry and a ruthless will to survive. On the run as a parole violator, he sheds several identities and loving women to escape being returned to prison. In the process, he becomes a noted poet and almost achieves a life-long dream.
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    July 4, 2011
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005ALS96Q
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 4, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 632 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Kenneth C. Crowe

Kenneth C. Crowe

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Ken Crowe lives in Melville on Long Island where he writes, reads, watches films, cooks, bakes, and exercises.

He was born in Manhattan, grew up in Woodside, Queens, graduated from Fordham Prep and Fordham College, served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, and was a reporter on the Second Army Sentinel, the Endicott Daily Bulletin, the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Newsday, and New York Newsday.

His novels include THE JYNX, THE DREAM DANCER, OOOEELIE, THE HERO, THE TRUCKERS, THE ABSCONDER, and BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE.

In addition, he is the author of two nonfiction books: COLLISION/How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters and AMERICA FOR SALE/An alarming look at foreign money is buying our country.

Crowe won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1974 to study foreign investment in the United States. He was a member of the Newsday investigative team whose work won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.

Website: www.kennethccrowe.com

Blog: www.kennethcrowe.blogspot.com

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Amazon Customer- Miles Sumner - (AKA Dr. Joe Kano)
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Story from Kenneth C. Crowe that I Enjoyed
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2014
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Kenneth C. Crowe is one of those rare writers who spins a tale that captivates me. Perhaps I see myself in the protagonist. Haven’t we all been wrongly accused of doing something we were innocent of? And haven’t we, at times, been forced to accept the blame? I’d think that nearly everyone will identify with one of Mr. Crowe’s characters. How many of us can, or have, turned misfortune into adventure, self-discovery and personal growth? Plus lots of Art (painting, poetry, theater, etc). I did not want the story to end the way it did; of course, a sequel might come out of it ! ! ! Since this is an eBook, I’d like seen some editing, there were a few sentences that are missing words or have conflicting tense; that distract me (saw what I mean?).
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Peter Beemer
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014
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Captured my interest with the twists of fate and the realistic emotion the characters portrayed.
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beaven
1.0 out of 5 stars Uninteresting smut.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015
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Uninteresting smut.
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Motherskiss
5.0 out of 5 stars I didnt see that coming....again
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013
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Crowe has done it again! What a thought provoking read! His knowledge of art and poetry is astoundingly impressive. No matter how hard you may try will never correctly guess each plot turn. I love his style of what I dub "I didn't see that coming". I guess it's like real life, somethings you just never expect.
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Roxie's Mum
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2014
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A provocative tale that induces the reader to ask all the age old questions of life.

Well written, the novel develops to its inexorable conclusion.

The novel is so well written that it can be enjoyed as just a story about a wrongly accused man.
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deneb edie
5.0 out of 5 stars If it's free what do I have to complain about?!?!?!
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
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If it's free what do I have to complain about?!?!?!
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