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An edition of Always outnumbered, always outgunned (1997)

Always outnumbered, always outgunned

1st ed.

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  • ★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 14 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

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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W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
208

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Subjects

Philosophers, Ex-convicts, African American men, Fiction, Socrates Fortlow (Fictional character), California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fortlow, socrates (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, African americans, fiction, Large type books

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Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.), Watts, California, Los Angeles

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Always outnumbered, always outgunned
1998, Thorndike Press
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Always outnumbered, always outgunned
1998, W.W. Norton
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Always outnumbered, always outgunned
1998, Washington Square Press
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Always outnumbered, always outgunned
1998, Serpent's Tail
in English
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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O88456 A79 1998, PS3563.O88456A49 199, PS3563.O88456 A49 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 p. ;
Number of pages
208

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OL1013557M
Internet Archive
alwaysoutnumbere0000mosl
ISBN 10
0393045390
LCCN
96054870
OCLC/WorldCat
36165270
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76518
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1141705

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Work Description

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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