Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned - Brossura

Mosley, Walter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0671014994 ISBN 13: 9780671014995

Casa editrice: Atria, 1998

Riassunto

Having served twenty-seven violent years in prison, Socrates Fortlow finds a home in an abandoned building and takes a job in a supermarket before meeting a troubled Darryl, whom he attempts to save from a fate like his own. Reprint. TV tie-in.

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Recensione

"Mournful, insightful, and mystical. It is also Mosley's best work of fiction." (Elle)

"A wonderful book...[with] characters who seem as real as the reader." (Denver Post)

"Mosley has constructed a perfect Socrates for millennium's end -- a principled man who finds that the highest meaning of life can be attained through self-knowledge, and who convinces others of the power and value of looking within." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Powerful...hard-hitting, unrelenting, poignant short fiction." (Booklist)

"Mosley's style suits his subject perfectly. The prose is sand-papery, the sentence rhythms often rough and jabbing. But then -- sudden surprise -- we come upon moments of undefended lyricism." (Sven Birkerts, The New York Times Book Review)

"Unveiling a new, bigger-than-life urban hero...Mosley...confer[s] on the mean streets of contemporary L.A. what filmmaker John Ford helped create for the American West: a gun-slinging mythology of street justice and a gritty, elegiac code of honor...A maverick protagonist." (Publishers Weekly)

"Tough but touching stories." (Playboy)

"An insistently probing, philosophical gem...set in a world where standard notions of right and wrong have been blown to hell." (Sonoma County Independent)

"The work of a writer unafraid of pushing forward his own notions of responsibility and entitlement." (The Los Angeles Times Book Review)

L'autore

Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries, all available from Pocket Books: Devil in a Blue Dress, adapted for the motion picture starring Denzel Washington, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, A Little Yellow Dog, and Gone Fishin'. His novel RL's Dream, the story of a dying blues musician and a redemptive friendship on the streets of New York, was hailed as "Mosley's finest achievement" (San Francisco Review of Books). His acclaimed short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned marks the debut of a compelling new character, streetwise ex-convict Socrates Fortlow.

He is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, a member of the board of directors of the National Book Awards, and the founder of the PEN American Center's Open Book Committee.

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• Editore: Atria
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0671014994
• ISBN 13: 9780671014995
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208