{"product_id":"always-outnumbered-always-outgunned-9780671014995","title":"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mournful, insightful, and mystical...Mosley's best work of fiction.\" \u003ci\u003e--Elle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces us to Socrates Fortlow, an \"astonishing character\" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of linked stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his own two rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working a dead-end job at the supermarket and moving perilously close to invisibility, Socrates seeks inner truth and redemption amid the violence and hopelessness of South Central Los Angeles. In fourteen intertwining tales, Socrates grapples with situations that are never easy as he attempts to hold on to a job and offer a lifeline to a young man on his same bloodstained path. In Socrates's battle-scarred wisdom, there is hope of turning the world around in this \"powerful, hard-hitting, unrelenting, poignant short fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMosley, Walter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Walter Mosley is the acclaimed author of forty-three books, including the internationally bestselling Easy Rawlins series. His best known Easy Rawlins novels include \u003ci\u003eDevil in a Blue Dress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Red Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Betty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLittle Yellow Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of the collection of stories \u003ci\u003eAlways Outnumbered\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAlways Outgunned\u003c\/i\u003e featuring Socrates Fortlow, which was the basis for an HBO feature film. A former president of the Mystery Writers of America, he was named a grand master by the organization in 2016. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Foundation and is a recipient of the PEN American Center Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Los Angeles, he now lives in New York City.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648864784658,"sku":"9780671014995","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b433c8e-0cf9-4973-9473-2359f7f97b48.jpg?v=1733251242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/always-outnumbered-always-outgunned-9780671014995","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}