Author: Walter Mosley
Year: 2000
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Genres/categories:
Mystery
Culture: African-American
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ISBNs:
9780783889610
9780316881715
0783889615
0316881716 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
In this new book, Socrates confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a girlfriend now, a steady job, and he is even caring for a pet, the two-legged dog he calls Killer. These responsibilities make finding the right path even harder--especially when the police make Socrates their first suspect in every crime within six blocks.
In each chapter of Walkin' the Dog, Socrates challenges a different conundrum of modern life. In Blue Lightning, he is offered a better-paying job but has to consider whether the extra pay is worth the freedom he would have to give up. In Promise, he keeps a vow made long ago to a dying friend, and learns that a promise to one person can mean damage to another. In Mookie Kid he gets a telephone and learns that the price of being able to reach others is that others can contact him - whether he wants to be reached or not.
Walkin' the Dog builds to a stunning climax as Socrates takes on a rogue cop who has terrorized his neighborhood. Writing with the same lyricism and insight that have made bestsellers of his Easy Rawlins mysteries, Walter Mosley has brought us a brilliant new book and one of the most enduring fictional characters to come along in years.
Contents:
- Blue Lightning
- Promise
- Shift, Shift, Shift
- What Would You Do?
- A Day In The Park
- The Mugger
- That Smell
- Walkin' The Dog
- Mookie Kid
- Movin' On
- Rascals In The Cane
- Rogue
This book is part of the "Socrates Fortlow" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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