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      Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

      by Walter Mosley
      Published
      Nov 1997
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      208
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      Socrates Fortlow Book 1

      About This Book

      "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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      First Edition Nov 1997 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393045390 ISBN10 0393045390
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      Feb 1998 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786212682 ISBN10 0786212683
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