{"product_id":"always-outnumbered-always-outgunned-1","title":"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned","description":"\"Mournful, insightful, and mystical...Mosley's best work of fiction.\" —Elle\n\nNew York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces us to Socrates Fortlow, an \"astonishing character\" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of linked stories.\n\n\"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.\"\n\nSocrates 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\" (Booklist).\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0671014994\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0671014994.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mosley, Walter\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42834061852733,"sku":"BVV.0671014994.A","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0671014994-0.jpg?v=1766523488","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/always-outnumbered-always-outgunned-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}