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The Man in My Basement |
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by Walter Mosley
ISBN: 031615931X
Pub. Date: February 2005
ISBN-13: 9780316159319
Format: Paperback, pp. 272
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Sales Rank: 45,235
List Price: $13.95
BBP Price: $11.16 Save 20% |
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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.
Author Biography: Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins
series of mysteries and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the
recipient of a Grammy Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and many other honors.
He was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.
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