A LITTLE YELLOW DOG

Book ID/图书代码： 12844004B05867

English Summary/英文概要： It’s 1964, and Easy Rawlins has given up street life, and has a job as a high school janitor. One morning, Easy is seduced by a teacher with a dog. By evening, the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and a corpse. A murderer is running loose and a little yellow dog is plotting revenge.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1963年11月: 易兹作为一名学校保管员，有了份文档的工作。生活似乎平淡而又无奇，但一个性感的老师登场的片刻狂喜, 将打破这一切的宁静。当这位女士消失的时候, 易兹深陷几具尸体的重重迷案中,警察袖手旁观, 就连一只小黄狗, 也不能帮他脱身。因自己之前的不清白的案底, 和宿敌相继而来的新仇旧恨，易兹必须亲和他渺小的保管员的生活告别，重操旧业，置身赴险了...。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：The best book yet in this fine series. Easy Rawlins [is] one of the most distinctive voices in crime fiction.---From Scientific American

Most successful mystery series find a good groove and stay put, holding their audience with the pleasures of familiarity. Only the best crime writers, like James Lee Burke (see opposite page), manage to rework their grooves, staying put but never letting comfort supersede substance. Then there’s Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins mysteries break most of the rules. By allowing Easy to grow older in real time (in five books, the series has moved from the mid-1940s through 1963), Mosley forces himself to reinvent his hero in every book, asking readers to accept change in a series character much as we would in ourselves, gradually but inevitably. In this installment, Easy has moved away from the street life that has alternately attracted and repelled him in the past; he’s working as a building engineer at a Los Angeles junior high school, raising his two adopted children, and struggling to avoid the storm clouds of discontent that continue to gather both in the nation and in his South Central L.A. home as the 1960s grind on. Then an impulsive decision to help a beautiful schoolteacher hide her yapping dog from an angry husband threatens to jeopardize Easy’s hard-won island of security. Soon he becomes a top suspect in two murders and must return to the street if he is to extricate himself from the mess. Mosley lets his plot unravel with the skill of a genre veteran, but as always, it is his ability to set Easy’s personal story in the context of the historical moment that gives this series its uniqueness. November 1963 isn’t just ambience here; it’s counterpoint to the drama of an individual black man realizing that his world will never be the same again. A superb novel in a superb series.---Bill Ott, From Booklist

Easy Rawlins is back (after his last appearance in Black Betty), which is great news for readers intrigued by Mosley’s noir L.A. settings and his resourceful, street-smart hero. It’s the early 1960s, and Easy has settled for a quiet, respectable life, out of touch with his raffish old comrades, making a home for his two adopted kids, working as a maintenance supervisor at a public school in Watts. But dead bodies interfere with his solid existence: first, a well-dressed corpse shows up in the school gardens; next, the first corpse’s twin is discovered at the home of an attractive teacher at the school who has disappeared?leaving Easy, who has enjoyed a quick tumble with her, to look after her little dog, Pharaoh. When white police (even an ambitious Latino sergeant) come sniffing around, Easy draws their close attention; in that time and place, independent black men were automatic suspects in any mayhem. It is Mosley’s great gift to make the racist atmosphere palpable without rubbing it in, and to show the depths of courage and tenacity in his marginal characters without preachiness. In the violent events that build to a bloody climax on the day JFK is shot, Easy and his friends, despite all their failings, hold to a code that never falters, meeting the worst life can throw at them with humor and grit. Mosley’s thrillers, always thrilling, are salutary as well. BOMC and QPB selections; author tour. ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 34 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 21 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City.

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