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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: The Socrates Forllow Stories
Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned The Socrates Forllow Stories
Author: Walter Mosley
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...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780787116460
ISBN-10: 0787116467
Publication Date: 10/1997
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Audio Literature
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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