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Title details for The Right Mistake by Walter Mosley - Available

The Right Mistake

#3 in series

by Walter Mosley
Ezra Knight
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From award-winning author Walter Mosley comes the third work featuring hardened ex-con turned street philosopher Socrates Fortlow. Organizing other troubled individuals, Socrates starts the Thursday Night Thinkers' Meeting, in which members discuss "the world and what would be the right thing to do." "Highly recommended for popular fiction collections."-Library Journal

  • Creators

  • Series

    Socrates Fortlow

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 12, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781456108755
      • File size: 268304 KB
      • Duration: 09:18:57

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Walter Mosley's third book featuring the philosopher ex-con Socrates Fortlow jumps around a bit but ultimately satisfies. Ezra Knight's narration of the novel is musical, a street opera about a flawed man trying to help people even more flawed than he is. The dialogue sounds true, the slang real. Mosley forgoes grammar for that realism, and it's a fair trade. While struggling to keep his own complicated woman happy, Fortlow runs "The Big Nickel," a place where people can talk about their frustrations, kind of a pressure-release valve for the oppressed. Mosley nibbles away at the corners of the story--Fortlow is being investigated for murder--as he tells the bigger story of a man trying to make a difference. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 11, 2008
      A history of terrible violence including rape and murder followed by 27 years of incarceration in a prison with its own codified violence have helped shape Socrates Fortlow, previously featured in two short story collections, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
      (1997) and Walkin’ the Dog
      (1999). The hardened ex-con living in South Central L.A. has been chiseled by his experiences into a hulking essence of wise humanity. An initial gathering of diverse characters (a Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, a gambler, a singer, a lawyer, two killers, etc.) brought together by Socrates becomes an agent of change. The weekly “Thinkers’ Meetings” grow despite internal dissension and attempts at suppression and subversion by authorities. The talks forge bonds, lead to actions, spread beyond L.A. and take on a life of their own. In the face of gangs, drugs, poverty and racism, Mosley poses the deceptively simple question—“What can I do?”—and provides a powerful and moving answer.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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