Gio's review
Blonde Faith
by Walter Mosley
Gio's review
Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
Gio's review
rating:
well i finished this. it wasn't entirely easy (ha ha) because it's a dark, bitter novel about personal failure and social dysfunction. that people survive at all is due to occasional encounters with the milk of human kindness, in the form mainly of a) adorable little girls, b) women who are generous with their natural gifts and c) easy rawlins. too bad that easy rawlins seems to be pretty much at the end of his tether. one less source of kindness in the world.
mosley's indictment of the pervasiveness of racism is as biting and effective as always. what strikes me as a new note is a deep weariness with the business of living -- loving, losing, trying to do the right thing, losing again. i'm coming away from this thinking that maybe it ain't worth it, even though i know know know that it is.
mosley inhabits the language of the easy rawlins story with great ease and casual elegance, blindsiding us now and them with strokes of jaw-dropping brilliance. some of the dialogue is so dead ...more
mosley's indictment of the pervasiveness of racism is as biting and effective as always. what strikes me as a new note is a deep weariness with the business of living -- loving, losing, trying to do the right thing, losing again. i'm coming away from this thinking that maybe it ain't worth it, even though i know know know that it is.
mosley inhabits the language of the easy rawlins story with great ease and casual elegance, blindsiding us now and them with strokes of jaw-dropping brilliance. some of the dialogue is so dead ...more
