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The power and precision of the writing is what first won me over - there's a bit when a white man, DeWitt Allbright, walks in to a black bar; he walks in, stands just inside the door, Mosley writes "...he had all the time in the world" and with these words you can sense, understand the moment and almost experience it yourself.
As a series of books, the Easy Rawlins novels are a complex of Californian tragedies and have no equal, to my mind, in charting the descent of ane man into a dark place in ...more
As a series of books, the Easy Rawlins novels are a complex of Californian tragedies and have no equal, to my mind, in charting the descent of ane man into a dark place in ...more
Mosley is notably in the hard-boiled detective tradition. His "Easy" Rawlins is a black war veteran in 1948 Los Angeles, and there's plenty of dark, gritty atmosphere, beautiful women of doubtful virtue, corrupt cops and danger down every corner and a strong first person voice. Mosley can boast a smooth prose style with deft and evocative imagery.
Oh, and his protagonist is a bigot who says he hates white people, who calls his boss at the factory "a slaver" and who when he gets a chain letter "su ...more
Oh, and his protagonist is a bigot who says he hates white people, who calls his boss at the factory "a slaver" and who when he gets a chain letter "su ...more
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