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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I have missed Walter Mosley and Easy Rawlins after reading the first 4 in the Rawlins series as they were published in paperback. I went back after a discussion with friends, and was rewarded. In this novel, we have reached the late '60's, the height of the Haight. Mosley manages the duality of Rawlins, his identity as a member of a subordinate racial group and his identity as a thinking and moral person as deftly as is possible. His voice is unique, deliberately vulgar, and deliberately, provocatively, literary at turns. The story breaks down as a crime story or mystery, but makes up for itself as a novel of servitude, anger, violence, survival and transcendence. (  ) BraveKelso | Jul 7, 2009 |  Whether I am listening in my car or reading, Mosley holds my attention with his smooth writing. lkoble | Jan 9, 2009 | I was disappointed in this book. There are good pictures of LA/SFin the dawn of the new age (the 60's), but so much is so formulaic. And so many people want to have sex with Easy. And then he has Easy start to consider himself a single man again so there can be sex scenes. The stock characters, Mouse, Jackson Blue, Etta Mae, by now aren't drawn at all they just are & Mosley uses the same words every time -- maybe to evoke a time when he did try to draw them & give them personalities. Plus he spends the whole book talking about his love for his daughter & then he kicks Bonnie out of the home without even considering the kids. franoscar | Jan 2, 2008 | Easy Rawlins, as usual, is caught between a rock and a hard place. He's hired by an strange little but powerful detective to track down a girl and some documents. Nightmares, gunshots, evasion tactics, sex and scheming ensue. Rawlins is a great character and Walter Mosley populates his novels with colorful and unusual types. This book is no exception. However, this one didn't seem as powerful as earlier Rawlins books and at times I felt Mosley was dumbing the prose down for readers, which I don't like at all. But I'll never regret a few hours spent with Mosley. (  ) citygirl | Dec 1, 2007 |   lacenaire | Sep 30, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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