The Race Is Not Given

By Frank E. Dobson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563151944
• ISBN13: 9781563151941
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Sterling House Pub
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best Book Ever!

I love this book. I think this book should go straight to Oprahs Book Club. As my father and my friend, I feel that Frank Dobson has a talent like no other writer today. I love his style and I love him. GREAT JOB DAD! From Jasmin Dobson (your child)

This writer establishes a rapport with the reader

I have just completed reading this novel after having to put it down a number of times to ponder my own feelings and life. I found it to be both haunting and thought provoking. This writer is extremely talented, having the ability to totally involve the reader with all of the characters and their individual pysche. I was both inspired and challenged by this experience. It made me think, it made me pray. It is sending me on a quest to find my own voice.

Outstanding, very descriptive words flowing with rhythum

Reading this reflected so much of my own similar upbringing and struggles. I was truly amazed of the writers' technigue and the ambiance that is developed between the reader and the author. You feel the story flow with ease from the pages to your inner self making you feel like you know exactly where the characters are and what they are dealing with. It is beautifully done and has a melodic sense as the words and emotions are filtered through and sent out to each reader to analyse and discover. The book has great depth and I look forward to many 'new' work done by this fresh new and very talented African American writer. Hats Off to Frank Dobson and continued success. I will pass the book on to everyone I know,and I await his next 'new' release.

This is an inspirational piece of work.

This book was an inspiring as well as interesting book. This book is also self identifying. There are parts of Stan and events in Stan's life that I myself could identify with. This book also had a hint of mystery to it and had unexpected turning points. I liked all of the experiences the author shared about his characters Stan, his mom, and dad. It showed a personal side and that the author did not mind you getting to know his characters. I also appreciated the author for allowing his audience to be aware of what was taking place with his characters at all times whether it was mentally, physically or spiritually.

"..time and chance happen to them all."

Dobson's main character Stan is best described by the Biblical quotation that opens his book "...but time and chance happen to them all" and time and chance are against Stanford. A failed marriage and cancer, Stan returns to his childhood home to try to construct the meaning of his life. Home for Stan is a myriad of different questions. Faced with an alcholic mother, a holy-roller father, his own Blackness and haunting memories of a running career, he must try to make some sense of it all. The book is a page turner to see if Stan will resolve all the questions in his life.