Blonde Faith | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446617903
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446617901
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Publication Date: August 6, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Easy Rawlins comes home from work, and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day than most men encounter in a lifetime.
A friend has left his daughter at Easy's house without so much as a note. Clearly this friend, Christmas Black, a veteran of Vietnam, fears for his life and his daughter's.
Easy's closest friend, the man known as Mouse, has disappeared too--and his wife tells Easy that he is wanted for murder. Mouse has been a thorn in the police's side for so long that Easy is convinced that this time they will kill him as soon as they find him.
Worst of all, Easy's longtime lover tells him that she plans to marry another man. In a world of hurt, Easy strikes out on his own to try to find one friend, save another, and save himself from the pain that is driving him out of his mind. On his path he meets drug dealers, corrupt officials, every manner of criminal and con--and a woman named Faith who may hold the key to more than one life.
In his tenth Easy Rawlins novel, Walter Mosley writes with a grace and insight that few writers ever achieve. It is the clearest proof yet that Walter Mosley is "one of this nation's finest writers" (Boston Globe).
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 What happened to Easy? August 21, 2008
What happened to the Easy Rawlins I knew and loved? Those were my thoughts as I read the latest from Walter Mosley "Blonde Faith". It was a big disappointment for me as I expected Easy to kick the bad guys where it hurts in the name of justice or at least to go out in a blaze of glory. Instead the entire book was about the once bold Easy Rawlins wallowing in self-pity about his lost love Bonnie. There is very little action to speak of as the two most "dangerous men" Easy has ever known, Christmas Black and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, don't even show up until the last few chapters of the book then don't do any thing more dangerous than grimace at each other. Easy slaps a pimp and tricks cops into killing the bad guys but most of the action in the novel takes place off scene. And why Walter Mosley named the book after a minor character is beyond me. The rest of the book is filled with a man feeling sorry for himself, having a mid life crisis. If you are an Easy Rawlins fan go back and re read Devil in a Blue Dress. Remember Easy as he was in the beginning.
Too Much Racism August 17, 2008
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I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Easy Rawlins novels up until this one. The basic story was weak and the entire book was filled with more "all the troubles of the black American male can be blamed on the white American male" nonsense. I learned a lot about the "black experience" by reading the previous novels and felt great empathy for the black Americans as portrayed by Mr. Mosley. This volume is filled with the usual rhetoric one expects from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
If this is the end of Easy Rawlins then good riddance as it is a shame he can't wake up and realize much of his misery is of his own making. "It's somebody else's fault" is a poor philosophy to live by. Mosely has simply given creedence to many racial stereotypes with this highly disappointing book. What a shame.
YOU KNOW IT DON'T COME EASY August 1, 2008
I've read the entire Easy Rawlins series. The writing has always been superb and the characters richly drawn. Mosely never lets you down and neither does Easy and Blonde Faith.
But you know it don't come easy letting go, and knowing that Blonde Faith might, could, possibly spell the end of one of the best written characters in american literature, it was a really tough read. I didn't want it to end the way I knew it had to. I didn't want to say goodbye to a character I've come to love, admire and, in a way, pity.
But wait...there is hope. OK, not much but hey, Walter Mosley might not be done with Ezekiel and his best friend Raymond (Mouse) Alexander. Mosley has given us a beaut of a cliffhanger to er, well, hang onto. I can only hope that we'll be seeing more of Easy and his LA friends at least one more time. There are issues yet to be resolved.
 more than a mystery May 10, 2008
I've read almost all of the Easy Rawlins series and almost always forget how good they are until I pick one up again. This latest is no exception. It's not so much the story that grabbed me, but the way it was told. With just a few lines, Mosley can evoke LA in 1967, right after the Watts riot, when the US was still in the middle of the Viet Nam war. He makes me care about Easy, Bonnie and Faith, and many of the other characters. Yes, there were too many minor characters, who were hard to keep track of and I had to go back to previous pages to follow the plot at times. But none of that kept from from thoroughly enjoying the book. Mosley is the natural heir to Raymond Chandler, who also eloquently wrote about LA, 20 years before the Easy Rawlins stories take place.
It does look bad for Rawlins at the end of Blonde Faith, but I like to think that he will somehow end up in northern California in the 1967 Haight Asbury, which we can read about in the next Easy Rawlins story.
Silence Is a Text Easy to Misread March 28, 2008
Should Walter Mosley determine not to write any more Easy Rawlins mysteries - which seems a distinct possibility - then this fine series will end, like "Blonde Faith," on a blue note.
This story is all about missing persons. Easy's newfound comrade, Christmas Black, deposits his adopted Vietnamese daughter on Easy's doorstep and disappears. Ray Alexander has gone to ground, and his woman, Etta Mae, fears that the police have caught up with him or may soon do so because of his supposed murder of Pericles Tarr. Said Pericles, like the woman who lived in the shoe, has so many children he doesn't know what to do - other than also disappear, with no body left behind. It's left to Easy to find out where, and find out why.
And most importantly, missing from Easy's life is Bonnie Shay, the love of his life. Easy has pridefully pushed her away, and she's now engaged to another man.
The plot is complex and very fluid. Easy doesn't stay in one place - or on one trail - for very long. He goes through the standard motions of detecting, but inside he is grieving the loss of Bonnie, and is distracted from his profession. He encounters enticing women, among them the eponymous Faith, but they don't fulfill him. His children no longer seem to need him. The recurring characters we see - Mamma Jo, Etta Mae, Mouse, Primo, Jewelle, and Jackson Blue - all seem to have moved past him, leaving Easy sliding, sliding, and then in free fall.
The book's mystery plot is nicely and cleanly resolved. But what will become of Easy? That question awaits its answer - if any - on another day.
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