Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
by Walter Mosley
Publication Date: Nov 01, 1997
List Price: $23.00
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780393045390
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Three decades ago, the young Socrates had, in a burst of drunken rage, murdered a man and a woman with his huge “rock-breaking hands.” Twenty-seven years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now Socrates lives in a cramped two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. In each of the linked stories that comprise this richly brooding work, Socrates, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism. He is an unforgettable presence and his perceptions cast a glow of somber lyricism upon an often harsh world.
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