Уолтер Мосли - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

Нил Гейман и Эл Саррантонио — не только блестящие литераторы и строгие критики, но и искушенные читатели, для которых сказка — это, в первую очередь, история. История с большой буквы. Она одинаково увлекательна для людей разного пола, возраста и национальности. Она балансирует на тонкой грани смешного и страшного, причудливого и обыденного, и для нее нет иных границ, кроме таланта и фантазии автора. А какой еще жанр отвечает этой задаче лучше, чем фантастика? Итогом трудов составителей и стала книга, которую вы держите в руках — коллекция лучших рассказов в жанрах мифологического и городского фэнтези, хоррора, саспенса и даже реализма,…

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.

Герой серии романов Уолтера Мосли - чернокожий ветеран Второй мировой войны Изи Роулинс. Дабы заработать на хлеб насущный, он становится частным детективом и окунается в гущу преступного мира, опускаясь на самое дно послевоенного Лос - Анджелеса.

Следователь Джо Кинг Оливер был обвинен в сексуальном насилии, которого не совершал. Увольнение, тюрьма, поломанная жизнь, которая никогда не будет прежней... Годы спустя Джо получает письмо от женщины, которая признается, что ей заплатили за подставу детектива много лет назад. Даже если ты всю жизнь стремишься на самый верх, стоит оступиться... и ты упадешь за одно мгновение.

A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time.

Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by shooting, and Ptolemy is too suspicious of anyone else to allow them into his life. until he meets Robyn, his niece's seventeen-year-old lodger and the only one willing to take care of an old man at his grandnephew's funeral.

But Robyn will not tolerate Ptolemy's hermitlike existence. She challenges him to interact more with the world around him, and he grasps more firmly onto his disappearing consciousness. However, this new activity pushes Ptolemy into the fold of a doctor touting an experimental drug that guarantees Ptolemy won't live to see age ninety- two but that he'll spend his last days in feverish vigor and clarity. With his mind clear, what Ptolemy finds-in his own past, in his own apartment, and in the circumstances surrounding his grand-nephew's death-is shocking enough to spur an old man to action, and to ensure a legacy that no one will forget.

In "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey", Mosley captures the compromised state of his protagonist's mind with profound sensitivity and insight, and creates an unforgettable pair of characters at the center of a novel that is sure to become a true contemporary classic.

It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the city’s outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences—the bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.

The veteran is not Easy’s only unlooked-for trouble. Easy’s adopted daughter Feather’s white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.