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A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.Tags
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Gone Fishin' marks the first appearance of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his sidekick Raymond "Mouse" Alexander. An atmospheric coming-of-age story, which gives the reluctant Easy an education in sex and death, family and forgiveness. The two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo.
Gone Fishin' takes us back to an incident (oft mentioned in earlier Easy Rawlins novels) when Easy was 19 and accompanied Mouse down to Pariah, Texas to get what he believes is his inheritance from his father, daddyReese. They stop for a while at Mama Jo's, a witch who keeps the mummified head of her husband on her windowsill. A stop where the love making and the fishin' are done with a violence that sickens Easy.
I've got a pile of Walter Mosley's books to work through and although I had read a couple of the stand-alone books and one Easy Rawlins before this, this took me back to the beginning. If we were discussing comic books this would be an " origin" story set back before WW2 in rural Texas.
This lacks the style of the Mosley books I have already read and is very dark in tone. If I was not already a fan I doubt that this would have turned me into one, but, given that I am it fills a hole in the back story and explains some aspects of Easy's relationship with Mouse.
This lacks the style of the Mosley books I have already read and is very dark in tone. If I was not already a fan I doubt that this would have turned me into one, but, given that I am it fills a hole in the back story and explains some aspects of Easy's relationship with Mouse.
3 Stars
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This is a prequel to the Easy Rawlins series. It was an interesting, quick and easy rea
Entertaining
This is a prequel to the Easy Rawlins series. It was an interesting, quick and easy rea
LT counts this as # 6 of the works in the narrative voice of Easy Rawlins. LT catalogues novels in the mystery genre, and some shorter novellas as works; it depends on the writer and the cataloguing volunteer.
This novel was published in 1997. It was set in late 1930s, in South Texas, as prequel to first 5 novels in the series, which are set in Los Angeles.
I read the 2002 paperback edition published by Washingon Square, which published the all first 6 novels, each with a short story. LT counts the Washington Square publication as work #6+ in Easy Rawlins series. The 6 stories publishd this way were catalogued a work, when Washington Square assembled the 6 short stories, and one further story, all set in 1960s, Six Easy Pieces(2003), show more which LT counts as work # 8 in the Easy Rawlins series. show less
This novel was published in 1997. It was set in late 1930s, in South Texas, as prequel to first 5 novels in the series, which are set in Los Angeles.
I read the 2002 paperback edition published by Washingon Square, which published the all first 6 novels, each with a short story. LT counts the Washington Square publication as work #6+ in Easy Rawlins series. The 6 stories publishd this way were catalogued a work, when Washington Square assembled the 6 short stories, and one further story, all set in 1960s, Six Easy Pieces(2003), show more which LT counts as work # 8 in the Easy Rawlins series. show less
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Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1952. He graduated from Johnson State College in Vermont. His first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990, won a John Creasy Award for best first novel, and was made into a motion picture starring Denzel Washington in 1995. He is the author of the Easy Rawlins Mystery show more series, the Leonid McGill Mystery series, and the Fearless Jones series. His other works include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, 47, Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and Twelve Steps toward Political Revelation. He has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novels "Blue Light" and "RL's Dream", and two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, "Always Outnumbered", "Always Outgunned", for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and "Walkin' the Dog". He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Awards and the founder of the PEN American Center's Open Book Committee. At various times in his life he has been a potter, a computer programmer, & a poet. He was born in Los Angeles & now lives in New York. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Gone Fishin' + Smoke
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- 2002
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- Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins
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- Please distinguish between this LT Work, a 2002 publication that includes the original Easy Rawlins short story "Smoke" (from Six Easy Pieces, 2003), and Walter Mosley's original 1997 novel Gone Fishin'. Thank ... (show all)you.
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