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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0671014994
ISBN-13: 9780671014995
Oct 1998
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
208 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In these stories, Socrates Fortlow, an ex-con, is back in Watts after serving 27 years for murdering a man and a woman in a drunken rage. Socrates collects bottles and delivers groceries for a supermarket, while contemplating the nature of morality in a society overburdened with crime, disease, racism, and poverty. Included in the "Los Angels Times" 100 Best Books of 1997.
| Size | | Length: | 208 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Mosley's style suits his subject perfectly. The prose is sandpapery, the sentence rhythms often rough and jabbing. But then--sudden surprise--we come upon moments of undefended lyricism. This, too, belongs to the character portrait."
New York Times Book Review - Sven Birkerts (11/09/1997)
"What Darryl learns on Marvane Street is communicated in a series of questions and answers reminiscent of pure Socratic dialogue. Indeed, in some scenes, 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 Book Review - Patricia Holt (11/16/1997)
"Political yet temperate, angry yet subtle, 'Always Outnumbered' is the work of a writer unafraid of pushing forward his own notions of responsibility and enlightenment....'Always Outnumbered' is ultimately the picture of a black community struggling to take on the challenge of finding its own better life and--given the strength, moral questioning and willingness to break the rules--may, just, succeed."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Thomas Curwen (11/09/1997)
"A successful commercial novelist, [Mosley] could have sequestered himself with a proven character and genre. Instead, he created the story of Socrates Fortlow and challenged his audience to read it...and weep."
Washington Post Book World - David Bradley (12/21/1997)
"There has always been a nagging argument about how [Mosley] should be categorised but there's no doubt now that his talent has outgrown every available genre. It's more ambitious, more experimental, more committed than anything on offer. Crime writing is unusually aware of its own limitations. Mosley simply strides through them. This is an important, exciting and original book. Where will we go from here?"
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (12/19/1997)
"The elemental recurrence of fear and lust and rage are right out of Easy Rawlins, even if Socrates' story exhibits rather than extends Mosley's range."
Stevenson
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