Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00JCSA8D0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is the triumph of each Easy Rawlins story—documenting this changing panorama of a city where the migration of Southern blacks, eager to claim it as their new world, is constantly remaking the city as it remakes them. Every Rawlins novel can be read on its own, but it's a far richer experience to read them in sequence and follow Easy's complex evolution as well as that of his ad hoc family and tight circle of friends. during the height of the Vietnam War, Mosley’s impressive 13th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2013’s Little G
He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. WALTER MOSLEY is the author of more than forty-two books, most notably twelve Easy Rawlins mysteries, the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into an acclaimed film starring Denzel Washington. Always Outnumbered was an HBO film starring Laurence Fishburne, adapted from his first Socrat
"Great Crime Fiction form a Master" according to Robert Shockey. Walter Mosley writes like Raymond Chandler, but from a completely different perspective - that of a black man in white-dominated 20th century America. I find myself frequently startled by a beautiful turn of phrase, so much so that I have to go back and re-read it again. Yet, the casual violence and racism are ugly and difficult to ponder, especially as a white man who grew up in that America. Anything Mosley writes is transcen. Easy Rawlins, Easy Reading Steven Wilson Mosley writes like he's just having a conversation with you, the reader. His implausible scenarios in the end, turn out to be plausible. The presence of his 'Deus Ex Machina', otherwise known as Mouse was not physically required but still exerted some influence in the telling of this tale. Mosley is a superb writer and his tales draw you in to the point where it's hard to stop reading. Another tale, well told!. "Easy Rawlins & the Flower Child" according to L. Mingo. With all the murders & mayhem that Mr. Mosley takes you through it's easy to overlook the intellect that he possesses. He can match wits with the most common of street wise people one minute and then befuddle the mind of the most literate with the depth & breath of his wisdom & knowledge. He truly is a master storyteller.
With twelve previous adventures since 1990, Easy Rawlins is one of the small handful of private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called immortal. Rose Gold continues his ongoing and unique achievement in combining the mystery/PI genre form with a rich social history of postwar Los Angeles—and not just the black parts of that sprawling city.. Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorc