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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Socrates Fortlow, a tough, brooding ex-convict, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism.

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  • "Socrates Fortlow, a tough, brooding ex-convict, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism."@en
  • "Avec un sombre lyrisme et un style audacieux, l'auteur du "Diable en robe bleue" dépeint la descente aux enfers d'un héros des temps modernes. Un roman d'une subtile beauté qui s'inscrit dans une oeuvre violente et singulière, confirmant le talent de Walter Mosley à saisir toute l'ambiguïté de la société américaine d'aujourd'hui."
  • "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."@en
  • "After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself."
  • "Socrates Fortlow is an ex-con trying to establish a life for himself following twenty-seven years in prison. When he meets Darryl, an 11-year-old boy on his way to a life of bloodshed and violence, Socrates becomes determined to atone for his past by saving Darryl."@en
  • "Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks, and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage--as well as the power of his massive "rock-breaking" hands--Socrates must find a way to live an honorable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.--"
  • "A black murderer in Los Angeles tries to adjust to normal life after 27 years in prison. Socrates Fortlow struggles with his conscience, tries to make amends, and grades himself at the end of the day. But he realizes he is a loser--once a convict, always a convict."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned"@en
  • "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned"
  • "Always outnumbered, always outgunned"
  • "Always outnumbered, always outgunned"@en
  • "Ulige kamp"@da
  • "L'âme d'un héros"

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