Synopsis
As a high school custodian, Easy Rawlins has been trying to live on the straight and narrow, and for two years he's been succeeding. Then he gets tangled up in the life of Idabell Turner--math teacher and femme fatale. When her husband and brother-in-law are murdered, Easy hits the streets to find the killer before the cops get a chance to pin the rap on him. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 1996.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-04-01 | | Narrated by: | Paul Winfield |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers already in her classroom. She has a dog with her and a story about a husband gone mad. Before he knows what's happening, the teacher is in his arms. Before the day is over the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and the handsomest corpse Easy has ever seen is found in the school garden. That night a second corpse turns up. The police believe that Easy is involved in the murders. Old enemies are waiting to get even. The principal of the school wants to fire him. His old friends aren't the same and his new friends might be his death. Easy wants back into his careful little life, but that door is closed. A murderer is running loose somewhere. And a little yellow dog plots revenge.
Industry Reviews
"As in all the Rawlins books, Mr. Mosley writes with a keen sense of place and a sharp style that pins his unpredictable characters deftly to the page."
Wall Street Journal - Tom Nolan (07/19/1996)
"Mosley writes with history breathing down his neck, skillfully twinning cause and effect, placing crime--like sex, ambition, the hopes of a full rich life--into a context made tragic by the Kennedy assassination. No grandstanding, no melodrama; just a lithe, resonant prose, showing its muscle and going for gold. Quality Stuff. Mosley continues to set the pace for the genre."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (09/19/1996)
"...no living novelist beats Mosley's nervy sense of what thin ice the solidest-seeming characters build their lives upon, and how terrifying it is to feel the surface crack."
McMurtry
"The beauty of Walter Mosley's novels lies in his gallery of vivid characters. The varieties of Everyman he introduces are guaranteed to refocus his reader's vision of America through an ever shifting lens....Packaged with Mosley's strongest moves, 'A Little Yellow Dog' is rich and thrilling."
Starobin
"What makes this book as impressive as it is is the humanity of its hero and the author's impressive abilities as a writer."
Smith
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