by Walter Mosley
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by Walter Mosley
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by Walter Mosley
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by Walter Mosley
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by Walter Mosley
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'Accept the official verdict: Mosley is a great and important writer' Independent; 'His next work could well be a Pulitzer acceptance speech' Crime Time; 'Mandatory' Time Out; 'Mosley's talent has outgrown every available genre' Literary Review
This book consists of a series of loosely connected and chronologically related short stories featuring crime writer Walter Mosley's most famous creation, Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins. It is 1964 and Easy is living a quiet life, working as a school supervisor and all settled down with his air hostess girlfriend Bonnie and his two adopted children Jesus and Feather, his only sorrow that his best friend, Ray 'Mouse' Alexander, is dead - gunned down while saving Easy's life. Even so, Easy's past is never far away and an anonymous phone call suggests that maybe Mouse isn't dead after all. Then a deliberate fire at the Soujourner Truth Junior high school where he works leads Easy back into the mean streets of Los Angeles and a series of difficult and dangerous adventures. The stories are mainly about people in trouble who don't deserve to be there, and who Easy is drawn to help despite his better judgement. Walter Mosley approaches the LA landscape from a black perspective. His characters and situations reflect this fact through the cool, matter-of-fact delivery and the constant assertion that this is a black man's world, a world that the white police force has no interest in save to pin the odd crime or two on it. Yet it is impossible not to compare these LA mindscapes with those of Chandler's Marlowe. Mosley shares Chandler's fatalistic irony and his respect for individual human lives. Easy also shares Marlowe's sense of weary dignity, honour and determination. Occasionally one gets the hint that these stories are being written from a present-day standpoint, of an old man reminiscing, but it is no more than that as the very immediacy of the prose takes control. Simply and economically written, these stories are an elegant and worthy addition to the ranks of Easy's adventures. (Kirkus UK)
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Six Easy Pieces finds Easy Rawlins slipping back into the streets in a series of mysteries. What links School Principal Hiram Newgate to the torching of his own school? Why is Edgar Winters of the Winter Baptist Church protecting a murderer? And what does Etta Mae, Mouse's lover, want when she calls Easy up for the first time since Mouse's death? Murder and mayhem follow as Easy wanders from schoolhouse to whorehouse haunted by the memory of his apparently dead sidekick, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. In these mysteries Easy confronts the financial and moral corruption at the heart of the mean streets of Watts in the 1960s.
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'Accept the official verdict: Mosley is a great and important writer' Independent; 'His next work could well be a Pulitzer acceptance speech' Crime Time; 'Mandatory' Time Out; 'Mosley's talent has outgrown every available genre' Literary Review
This book consists of a series of loosely connected and chronologically related short stories featuring crime writer Walter Mosley's most famous creation, Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins. It is 1964 and Easy is living a quiet life, working as a school supervisor and all settled down with his air hostess girlfriend Bonnie and his two adopted children Jesus and Feather, his only sorrow that his best friend, Ray 'Mouse' Alexander, is dead - gunned down while saving Easy's life. Even so, Easy's past is never far away and an anonymous phone call suggests that maybe Mouse isn't dead after all. Then a deliberate fire at the Soujourner Truth Junior high school where he works leads Easy back into the mean streets of Los Angeles and a series of difficult and dangerous adventures. The stories are mainly about people in trouble who don't deserve to be there, and who Easy is drawn to help despite his better judgement. Walter Mosley approaches the LA landscape from a black perspective. His characters and situations reflect this fact through the cool, matter-of-fact delivery and the constant assertion that this is a black man's world, a world that the white police force has no interest in save to pin the odd crime or two on it. Yet it is impossible not to compare these LA mindscapes with those of Chandler's Marlowe. Mosley shares Chandler's fatalistic irony and his respect for individual human lives. Easy also shares Marlowe's sense of weary dignity, honour and determination. Occasionally one gets the hint that these stories are being written from a present-day standpoint, of an old man reminiscing, but it is no more than that as the very immediacy of the prose takes control. Simply and economically written, these stories are an elegant and worthy addition to the ranks of Easy's adventures. (Kirkus UK)
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Six Easy Pieces finds Easy Rawlins slipping back into the streets in a series of mysteries. What links School Principal Hiram Newgate to the torching of his own school? Why is Edgar Winters of the Winter Baptist Church protecting a murderer? And what does Etta Mae, Mouse's lover, want when she calls Easy up for the first time since Mouse's death? Murder and mayhem follow as Easy wanders from schoolhouse to whorehouse haunted by the memory of his apparently dead sidekick, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. In these mysteries Easy confronts the financial and moral corruption at the heart of the mean streets of Watts in the 1960s.
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