Nine years after his release from prison, Socrates is still living in a two-room shack in Watts, now with a lover and a steady job. Having responsibilities and people he cares about makes acting morally even harder ? he has so much more to lose with the police watching his every move. Socrates Fortlow, first introduced in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, is one of the essential fictional characters of our times. In Walkin' the Dog, the philosopher with 'rock-breaking hands' has come in from the cold and has to decide ...
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Nine years after his release from prison, Socrates is still living in a two-room shack in Watts, now with a lover and a steady job. Having responsibilities and people he cares about makes acting morally even harder ? he has so much more to lose with the police watching his every move. Socrates Fortlow, first introduced in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, is one of the essential fictional characters of our times. In Walkin' the Dog, the philosopher with 'rock-breaking hands' has come in from the cold and has to decide at which point an individual must make a stand against the brutality and corruption that surrounds him. At a time when much contemporary fiction confines itself to the personal, Walter Mosley creates characters that speak to the universal and reflect on dilemmas that are the moral questions of our time.
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I was expecting some sort of crime drama, but Walkin' the Dog is a literary character study--a series of moral conflicts facing an ex-con living in Watts. Filled with anger and bitterness, Socrates Furlow never-the-less thinks about things and, despite the odds stacked against him, attempts to do the right thing. Though there's not a great deal of action, the character is so well drawn, he gets under your skin. Written as a series of self-contained chapters, Walkin' the Dog is well-crafted and easy to read. Take a little vacation to inner city L.A., if you dare...