[Socrates Fortlow 01] • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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- Authors
- Mosley, Walter
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press
- Tags
- los angeles (calif.) , mystery & detective , african american , ex-convicts , inner cities , psychological fiction , watts (los angeles; calif.) , general , mystery , fiction , african american men
- ISBN
- 9780671014995
- Date
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.97 MB
- Lang
- en
*New York Times* 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.
*"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."* 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.