An elderly, one-eyed, alcoholic man whom Primo “adopts” as a surrogate grandfather and hires to work at the Game Room. Abraham cleans the Game Room and pretends to be senile and collect quarters from the game machines when the police show up, in order to dissuade them from investigating the crackhouse. He dies between the end of Bourgois’s fieldwork and the book’s publication.
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Abraham Character Timeline in In Search of Respect
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Chapter 3: Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity
...comings and goings of the emaciated addicts,” distract the police (especially the 72-year-old one-eyed alcoholic Abraham, who collects quarters from the game machines), and protect the crackhouse against potential mugging or...
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Epilogue
...lives with his girlfriend and son. Eddie, Caesar’s cousin, is still a bus driver. And Abraham, the alcoholic elderly man Primo “adopted” as a grandfather, died—this precipitated a housing catastrophe in...
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