Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Socrates Fortlow #1)

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Synopsis
New York Timesbestselling 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.

Copyright:
1998

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
208 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781451612462
Related ISBNs:
9780671014995
Publisher:
Washington Square Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Walter Mosley
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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