Walkin' The Dog

by Mosley, Walter

First Edition; First Printing

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Book description: Boston: Little Brown & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good, with minimal shelf wear. Pages clean, white and crisp. ; Socrates Fortlow; Vol. 2; 0.75 x 9.25 x 5.75; 260 pages; Walter Mosley came up with his own variant on Ellison's invisible man, a forbidding ex-con named Socrates Fortlow. Socrates returns in Walkin' the Dog, still operating out of his tiny Watts apartment. Like his dog, Killer--a spirited mutt who's missing his two hind legs--Socrates has to contend with a number of severe handicaps. He's the fall guy for every crime committed in the vicinity, a scapegoat of near-biblical proportions: The police always came. Sometimes they took him off to jail. They had searched his house and given him a ticket for not having a license for his two-legged dog. They dropped by on a whim at times just in case he had done something that even they couldn't suspect. Yet Socrates is no poster child for racial victimization. Why? Because Mosley never soft-pedals the fact that he is, or was, a murderer. Deprived of any sort of sentimental pulpit, Socrates makes his moral determinations on the fly. Should he admit that he killed a mugger in self-defense? Can he force his adopted son Darryl to stay in school? Should he murder a corrupt cop who's terrorized his entire neighborhood? His answers are consistently surprising, and that fact--should make every reader long for Mosley's next excursion into the Socratic method. .

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