Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Socrates Fortlow 1

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Synopsis

Adapted for the screen in 1998 starring Laurence Fishburne as Socrates Fortlow.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.

Book details

Series:
Socrates Fortlow Ser.
Author:
Walter Mosley
ISBN:
9781474608558
Publisher:
Orion
Pages:
208
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-03-21
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1997
Copyright by:
Walter Mosley 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers