Always outnumbered, always outgunned
New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles -- and finding the miracle of survival. "I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, a…
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- Full title :Always outnumbered, always outgunned / by Walter Mosley.
Summary
New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles -- and finding the miracle of survival. "I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his huge, rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working for the Bounty supermarket, and moving perilously close to invisibility, it is Socrates who throws a lifeline to a drowning man: young Darryl, whose shaky path is already bloodstained and fearsome. In a place of violence and hopelessness, Socrates offers up his own battle-scarred wisdom that can turn the world around
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
Notes
Electronic book.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781451612462, 145161246X
- oclc:ocn875061039
- LC Classification:PS3563.O88456
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Crimson shadow -- Midnight meeting -- The thief -- Double standard -- Equal opportunity.
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