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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series)
	by Walter Mosley Thorndike Pr (Largeprint); ISBN: 0786212683 Hardcover (February 1998); 1.17 x 8.76 x 5.74 inches Ships in: 2-3 days.

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In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks, and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage--as well as the power of his massive "rock-breaking" hands--Socrates must find a way to live an honorable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.

Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it's a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty, and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighborhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both musical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear, and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

The New York Times Book Review, Sven Birkerts
Mosley models Socrates from all sides, many unflattering, yet he manages to leave us with the impression of a man whose soul is tuned to the pain of others. Socrates acts decently not because he hews to a code of right action, but because decency follows from this susceptibility. His decency is a force.... Mosley has not appliqued his morality; he has located its deep coiled root and tracked it up to the surface. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Thomas Curwen
While Mosley skips the bounds of mystery writing this time around, he proves himself equally adept searching for truth in everyday life, a place where the simplest questions (What do I do when I've lost my job? What happens when my husband doesn't come home at night? How do I stand up to the gangsters down thestreet?) are the most difficult to answer.... Political yet temperate, angry yet subtle, Always Outnumbered is the work of a writer unafraid of pushing forward his own notions of responsibility and entitlement. Without sacrificing nuance or trying to settle the difficult and irreconcilable contradictions of life, Mosley casts the passive, rhetorical question that Waller, Armstong and Ellison pondered in a new light.... Always Outnumbered is ultimately the picture of a black community struggling to take on the challenge of finding its own better life and--given the strength, moral questioning and willingness to break the rules--may, just, succeed. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title


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