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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Mosley, Walter

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Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0671014994
ISBN13: 9780671014995
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
Mournful, insightful, and mystical...Mosley's best work of fiction. --Elle

New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces us to Socrates Fortlow, an astonishing character (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of linked stories.

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 own two rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working a dead-end job at the supermarket and moving perilously close to invisibility, Socrates seeks inner truth and redemption amid the violence and hopelessness of South Central Los Angeles. In fourteen intertwining tales, Socrates grapples with situations that are never easy as he attempts to hold on to a job and offer a lifeline to a young man on his same bloodstained path. In Socrates's battle-scarred wisdom, there is hope of turning the world around in this powerful, hard-hitting, unrelenting, poignant short fiction (Booklist).

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