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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446617901
ISBN: 0446617903
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 06, 2008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Sales Rank: 124223
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Easy Rawlins comes home from work, and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day than most men encounter in a lifetime.
A friend has left his daughter at Easy's house without so much as a note. Clearly this friend, Christmas Black, a veteran of Vietnam, fears for his life and his daughter's.
Easy's closest friend, the man known as Mouse, has disappeared too--and his wife tells Easy that he is wanted for murder. Mouse has been a thorn in the police's side for so long that Easy is convinced that this time they will kill him as soon as they find him.
Worst of all, Easy's longtime lover tells him that she plans to marry another man. In a world of hurt, Easy strikes out on his own to try to find one friend, save another, and save himself from the pain that is driving him out of his mind. On his path he meets drug dealers, corrupt officials, every manner of criminal and con--and a woman named Faith who may hold the key to more than one life.
In his tenth Easy Rawlins novel, Walter Mosley writes with a grace and insight that few writers ever achieve. It is the clearest proof yet that Walter Mosley is "one of this nation's finest writers" (Boston Globe).
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Walter Mosley is a strong writer with a sense of humor. This book is the latest Easy Rowlins novel and the best one yet. It is easy to settle slowing into the grips of a Mosley novel. Suddenly one realizes you are trapped and do not want to put it down. I practically read this one right through. Mystery readers and those interested in L.A. in the 70's will be delighted with the novel. Keep writing Mosley!
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Easy Rawlins, has a broken heart.
Wait....that doesn't quite do it justice.
Easy Rawlins is completely devastated, lamenting the loss of the one woman that seemed to bring stability to the crazy, mixed up world in which he finds himself.
Walter Mosley slides into his storytelling like a threadbare housecoat that looks like the devil...but feels like heaven. This time, its California, 1969...post Watts Riots but pre-understanding and acceptance.
And Easy?
Easy spends most of this novel chasing: chasing Mouse, chasing Christmas Black and, most importantly, chasing his own demons as he tries to pull himself back together.
I enjoyed the humanization of Easy this time around. Mosley inserts a jaggedness to his character that reflects a lot of the pain and confusion Easy has seen over the years. I walked away feeling as if I understood him a bit more deeply. His vulnerability and warring thoughts add a depth of character that was always there, but was more understated in the past.
While not the best Rawlins mystery I've read...Mosley pulls you into his world with vivid descriptions and insights into layers of racism that only an insider can give.
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What happened to the Easy Rawlins I knew and loved? Those were my thoughts as I read the latest from Walter Mosley "Blonde Faith". It was a big disappointment for me as I expected Easy to kick the bad guys where it hurts in the name of justice or at least to go out in a blaze of glory. Instead the entire book was about the once bold Easy Rawlins wallowing in self-pity about his lost love Bonnie. There is very little action to speak of as the two most "dangerous men" Easy has ever known, Christmas Black and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, don't even show up until the last few chapters of the book then don't do any thing more dangerous than grimace at each other. Easy slaps a pimp and tricks cops into killing the bad guys but most of the action in the novel takes place off scene. And why Walter Mosley named the book after a minor character is beyond me. The rest of the book is filled with a man feeling sorry for himself, having a mid life crisis. If you are an Easy Rawlins fan go back and re read Devil in a Blue Dress. Remember Easy as he was in the beginning.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Easy Rawlins novels up until this one. The basic story was weak and the entire book was filled with more "all the troubles of the black American male can be blamed on the white American male" nonsense. I learned a lot about the "black experience" by reading the previous novels and felt great empathy for the black Americans as portrayed by Mr. Mosley. This volume is filled with the usual rhetoric one expects from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
If this is the end of Easy Rawlins then good riddance as it is a shame he can't wake up and realize much of his misery is of his own making. "It's somebody else's fault" is a poor philosophy to live by. Mosely has simply given creedence to many racial stereotypes with this highly disappointing book. What a shame.
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I've read the entire Easy Rawlins series. The writing has always been superb and the characters richly drawn. Mosely never lets you down and neither does Easy and Blonde Faith.
But you know it don't come easy letting go, and knowing that Blonde Faith might, could, possibly spell the end of one of the best written characters in american literature, it was a really tough read. I didn't want it to end the way I knew it had to. I didn't want to say goodbye to a character I've come to love, admire and, in a way, pity.
But wait...there is hope. OK, not much but hey, Walter Mosley might not be done with Ezekiel and his best friend Raymond (Mouse) Alexander. Mosley has given us a beaut of a cliffhanger to er, well, hang onto. I can only hope that we'll be seeing more of Easy and his LA friends at least one more time. There are issues yet to be resolved.
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