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The Man in My Basement

By Walter Mosley

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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 in his family for generations.Continue

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 in 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 particularand bizarreset 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.

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  • Redemption song

    The Man in My Basement, by Walter Mosley (Serpent's Tail, £7.99) Mosley is primarily known as the writer of the Easy Rawlins detective series, the first of which is set in postwar Los Angeles and which extends, in the latest, to the 1960s. President ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Man in My Basement By Walter Mosley

    A master of many genres, including mystery and science fiction, Mosley has now produced a profound, fully imagined piece of literary fiction, a novel that privileges philosophical discussion over action-packed plotlines. Unemployed and swimming in de ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 249 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1852428503
  • ISBN-13: 9781852428501
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail
  • Pub date: May 19, 2004
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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