Always outnumbered, always outgunned
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Phoenix Books, [2007]
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 6:13:59. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Performed by Paul Winfield. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 89603 KB; MP3 file size: 175630 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Ex-convicts -- Fiction Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
Three decades ago, young Socrates Fortlow murdered a man and woman in cold blood with his huge "rock-breaking hands" while in a drunken rage. 27 years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now he is out, living in a cramped two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. The tough, brooding ex-con is determined to understand the violence and anarchy in the world around him--and in his own soul. A series of related stories make up this lyrical novel that explores the issues of morality, crime, poverty and racism through the eye of the most unforgettable character since Easy Rawlins.