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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316570826
ISBN-139780316570824
eBay Product ID (ePID)458339
Product Key Features
Book TitleMan in My Basement
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicGeneral, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorWalter Mosley
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-056317
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisStepping away from his summertime thriller series featuring Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones, Mosley delivers a literary novel of astonishing originality and power. Abridged. 5 CDs., Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling.His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view.Sure enough, he has a very particular-and bizarre-set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness.But he sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Richly textured and compelling, THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT is a new literary pinnacle from an acknowledged American master.