![]() ![]() Taken together, they form an extended social fiction, as much Balzac as Raymond Chandler, charting the life of Los Angeles - and especially African American Los Angeles - in the decades after World War II. ![]() These are the details, the little nuances, that give the Rawlins novels such resonance. And so, I naturally followed it, from having him wake up dead to, at the end of the book, actually being alive.” But ‘Little Green’ is about resurrection. … Most of my novels are about redemption. And when he came back to consciousness, he felt dead. “It was great,” Mosley enthuses, “because for all intents and purposes, Easy was dead. He is, if not entirely alive, then at least present, navigating a 1967 Los Angeles he barely recognizes in the wake of both the Watts riots and the Summer of Love. ![]() I ignored this, though, realizing that in a few seconds, I’d be dead.”Īnd yet, six years later, Easy is back, narrating a new novel, “Little Green” (Doubleday: 292 pp., $25.95), that picks up where “Blonde Faith” left off. Something clenched down on my left foot and pain lanced up my leg. “The back of my car hit something hard,” Easy tells us, “a boulder no doubt. This was in the closing pages of the 11th (and apparently final) Rawlins book, “Blonde Faith,” published in 2007. When last we saw Walter Mosley’s detective Easy Rawlins, he had just lost control of a car he was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway north of Malibu. ![]()
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