Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned - by Walter Mosley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles. "New York Times" bestselling author Walter Mosley presents his most compelling character since Easy Rawlins in "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned"--soon to be an HBO movie starring Laurence Fishburne.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>New York Times</i> 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.</b> <p/><i>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.</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>"</i>A wonderful book...[with] characters who seem as real as the reader."-- "Denver Post"<br><br><i>"</i>An insistently probing, philosophical gem...set in a world where standard notions of right and wrong have been blown to hell."-- "Sonoma County Independent"<br><br><i>"</i>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"<br><br><i>"</i>Mournful, insightful, and mystical. It is also Mosley's best work of fiction."-- "Elle"<br><br><i>"</i>Powerful...hard-hitting, unrelenting, poignant short fiction."-- "Booklist"<br><br><i>"</i>The work of a writer unafraid of pushing forward his own notions of responsibility and entitlement."-- "The Los Angeles Times Book Review"<br><br><i>"</i>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"<br><br>"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"<br><br>"Tough but touching stories."-- "Playboy"<br>
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