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| Diablerie: A Novel |
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| In this short, intense roman dur (or serious novel), Mosley probes the human condition through Ben Dibbuk, a black man whose name evokes the dybbuk of Jewish folklore. A 47-year-old computer programmer for a New York City bank, Dibbuk is married to Mona, the editor of a new cutting-edge magazine, Diablerie, which can mean either mischievous or evil. He has a daughter at NYU and a 21-year-old Russian mistress whose apartment and graduate school tuition he pays for. Then a woman he doesn't remember threatens to shatter the shell Dibbuk has built to protect himself from his troubled, alcoholic past. When Dibbuk discovers Mona is having him investigated, he realizes he risks being charged for a murder he can't remember but may have committed. As Dibbuk struggles to escape the emotional vacuum of his life, he may not be free to enjoy his reawakening. This is Mosley at his deepest and best, scratching away the faces we wear to reveal the person behind the masks.
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| This Year You Write Your Novel (April 2007) |
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| Master storyteller Walter Mosley shares the secrets of the craft and gives you the tools to write a novel in just one year. No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice and wisdom, Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Intended as both inspiration and instruction, the book provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer. Mosley tells how to: Create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs — and how to stick to it; Determine the narrative voice that's right for every writer's style; Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story. |
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| Blonde Faith (An Easy Rawlins Mystery, October 2007) |
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| Set in post-Watts 1967, this 10th installment of Mosley's groundbreaking Easy Rawlins series finds Easy, now 47, groping for stability in an increasingly unstable world. He's just lost his soul mate and has now been hired to track down two friends: Christmas Black, a former Green Beret who left his adopted Vietnamese child at Easy's house before disappearing, and everyone's favorite sociopath, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, whom the police are out to kill. In their review, Library Journal observed: "More than one man's journey, Mosley's Easy Rawlins series is a chronicle of the shifting landscape of race relations from the 1940s to the 1960s and is destined to become part of the American-and not just African American-conscience. Highly recommended." (Source: Library Journal) |
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| Fear of the Dark (September 2006) |
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| Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a high-velocity, larger-than-life thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge. Filled with the sheer-nerve plotting and brilliant characterizations that prompted The Nation to credit Walter Mosley for "the finest detective oeuvre in American literature."
(Source: Waltermosley.com) |
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| Killing Johnny Fry (December 2006) |
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| The first sexistential novel by one of America’s greatest men of letters startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife. When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. In that instant, the calm existence of this middle-aged New York City man becomes something unrecognizable: he wants revenge, but also something more. Killing Johnny Fry is the story of Cordell’s dark, funny, soulful, and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life. Above all, it is about a man questioning the rules we take for granted—and the powerful and sometimes disturbing connections that occur between people when these rules are removed. (Source: Bloomsbury USA) |
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| Fortunate Son |
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| Mosley's latest novel about two boys — one white and ensconced in a life of privilege and the other black and living a life of hardship — explores the true meaning of fortune. O Magazine calls it "a sharp parable that confronts hard questions head-on... you'll be on the edge of your seat." Publishers Weekly said, "With the lightest, slyest of touches, Mosley shows how a certain kind of inarticulate, carnal, involuntary affection transcends just about anyhting. It's not love, it's fate, and it's breathtaking." Library Journal raved, "Fortunate Son deserves to be on the shelves of every library." (Source: Little Brown) |
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Life Out of Context
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| Life Out of Context begins as a powerful, brooding and humorously honest examination of Mosley’s own sense of cultural dislocation as an African American writer. But due to a series of serendipitous events — the screening of a documentary about Africa, an encounter with Harry Belafonte and Hugh Masakela — Mosley, rather like the protagonist in one of his mystery novels, has a series of epiphanies on the role of a black intellectual in America. He asks: What can we do to fight injustice, poverty, exploitation, and racism? What is globalization doing to us? Through these late night meditations, Mosley attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a "life out of context" and seeks instead to find a political context. He ends with a call to arms, proposing that African Americans have to break their historic ties with the Democrat Party, and form a party of their own.
(Source: Avalon Publishing Group) |
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Maximum Fantastic Four
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| Walter Mosley is a self-described comic book geek. From the time he discovered The Fantastic Four, the groundbreaking 1961 superhero comic book created for Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, he has been fascinated by Kirby and Lee's art and storytellling. "I learned," says Mosley of the comic, "that entertainment, education, and art could all coexist in one form." Now, more than four decades later, Mosley has teamed with Marvel Comics to produce this oversized hardcover recreation of the first issue of The Fantastic Four with a new twist — every one of Kirby's panels is enlarged, transforming a 32-page pulp comic into a 224-page hardcover book. "The result," says Publishers Weekly "offers something like Roy Lichtenstein's early comic panel paintings.... an impressive tribute to Kirby and Lee and a labor of love by Mosley."
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The Wave
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| The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future. Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides to investigate. Curious and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there changes his life forever. Caught up in a war between a secret government security agency and an alien presence infecting our world, touched by the Wave, he knows that nothing will ever be the same again.
(Source: Warner Books) |
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| Cinnamon Kiss (October 2005) |
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| Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever — a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love. In an advanced review, Publishers Weekly said, "As ever, Mosley is able to capture the era — hippies, Watts, communes — in brief strokes that provide a brilliant background to Easy's search for solutions ." |
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| In his first book for young adults, Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom. Nominated by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults in 2006. (Source: Time Warner)
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Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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| Mosley returns to top form in this ninth installment of his celebrated Easy Rawlins series. It's the last days of the Watts riots in 1966, and a black woman, nicknamed Little Scarlet, has been found murdered in her apartment, the same building that an unidentified white man appeared to enter after escaping a mob of rioters. Did the white man commit the murder? The LAPD wants answers quickly, which is why Rawlins is asked to investigate...
Mosley remains a master at showing his readers slices of history from the inside, from a perspective that is all those things history usually isn't: intimate, individual, and passionate.
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| The Man In My Basement |
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| Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity.
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Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel
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| In this eagerly anticipated follow-up to Fearless Jones (2001), Watts bookstore owner Paris Minton and the dangerous but principled Fearless Jones are reunited in this mystery filled with deception, kidnapping, temptation and murder. Mosley weaves a gripping tale thanks to a fast-paced and largely character-driven narrative set in the black Los Angeles of the 1950’s. |
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What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
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| What Next is a deeply personal and political essay, offering a simply written, common sense approach to the current challenge of world peace. Mosley threads stories and remembrances of his father, through a provocative assessment of the unique perspective African Americans have developed as insiders and outsiders in America. He challenges African Americans to use this unique position to demand and help create a new kind of peace between the United States and the rest of the world. This new role for African Americans may well be the only route to a lasting peace. |
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Fearless Jones
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| Paris Minton is a black bookstore owner in 1950’s Los Angeles, happy to mind his own business - but when the beautiful Elana Love walks into his store, his lust for her gets him into trouble. Soon he’s been robbed and his store burned to the ground. He needs the help of his friend Fearless Jones, a World War II veteran who earned his name fighting Nazi soldiers. Together they set out to find the elusive Elana Love and discover a trail that leads to a cache of looted riches from the War. But the more they uncover, the more danger they're in - as black men in 1950s L.A., they have no rights, few friends, and little recourse under attack. |
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Devil in a Blue Dress: A Novel
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| In Devil in a Blue Dress, Detective Easy Rawlins is hired by a financier and a gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant board meetings to the raucous jazz joints of the late forties in Los Angeles. |
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Walkin' the Dog
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| Nine years after being released from prison, ex-convict Socrates Forlow is struggling to rebuild his life - with a girlfriend, a steady job, and a pet - but his efforts to maintain his principles and do the right thing is complicated when the police make him their prime suspect for every neighborhood crime. |
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Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Hand of History
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| Walter Mosley spins a different yarn in Workin' on the Chain Gang, imploring citizens to solve the social, economic, racial, and political crimes of late 20th-century civilization. Mosley takes aim at the average American's feelings of disempowerment and - while he is quick to point out the role race plays - he also states: "The problem facing Americans today does not originate from racial conflict. The problem is the enslavement of a whole nation to the rather small and insignificant goals of the few who own (or control) almost everything." |
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Blue Light
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| BlueLight is a speculative novel about good and evil, the nature of humanity, and the ultimate purpose and fate of the human race. |
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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| This is the debut of Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-convict who's determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world -- and in himself. In each of the stories that comprise this novel, Socrates, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty and racism. |
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Black Betty
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| In Black Betty, Easy Rawlins is tracking down Elizabeth Eady, a.k.a. "Black Betty"--a stunning beauty with mayhem in her wake. Easy's search takes readers deep into America's racial dilemmas and the mysteries of human character. |
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