- Philosophers, Ex-convicts, African American men, Fiction
Socrates Fortlow is Walter Mosley's most compelling character since Easy Rawlins, a tough, brooding ex-convict and is set to be a bold and original new hero.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Walter Mosley
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- New Millennium Audio, W.W. Norton, Albin Michel
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781852427023
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First sentence
“"What you doin' there, boy?"”
About Walter Mosley · 1952
American novelist
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