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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

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9780671014995
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New York Times bestselling 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.

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Author:
Walter Mosley
ISBN 10:
0671014994
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Washington Square Press
Publication Date:
October 1, 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Weight:
0.43lbs