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- Author : Walter Mosley
- Binding : Hardcover
- EAN : 9781852427023
- Edition : New Ed
- ISBN : 1852427027
- Label : Serpent's Tail
- Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
- Manufacturer : Serpent's Tail
- Number Of Pages : 208
- Package Dimensions : 0.71 inches (Height) x 7.72 inches (Length) x 0.35 pounds (Weight) x 5.04 inches (Width)
- Product Group : Book
- Publication Date : 1998-06-01
- Publisher : Serpent's Tail
- SKU : NU-GRD-00567688
- Studio : Serpent's Tail
Socrates Fortlow has spent 27 years in prison and can kill a man with his bare hands. But now he's out and determined to use his strength for good, to help the downtrodden and oppressed of the Los Angeles ghetto. Like his Greek namesake, Socrates Fortlow asks questions in an attempt to understand his world.
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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 honourable 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 neighbourhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both lyrical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision.
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Other Versions:
- Paperback : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Audio Cassette : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: the Socrates Forllow Stories
- Hardcover : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Hardcover : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Thorndike Basic)
- Hardcover : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Unknown Binding : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Paperback : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Hardcover : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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