![]() He has just been laid off from his job in anĪirplane factory for letting his independence show too openly toward his white boss. The narrator, Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins, is a young black man home from the infantry wars in Europe, where he experienced a measure of equality in uniform and learned that all blood bleeds red indiscriminately. That night the fields were dark under the slight moon and the air was chill but not cold.'' The Japanese farmers grew artichokes, lettuce and strawberries along the sides of The year is 1948, the town, Los Angeles, before the Freeway: ''There was still a large stretch of farmland between Los Angeles and Santa Monica in those days. The patrons are all desperate men: ''they lived for hurting.'' ![]() The reader knows he's in the hands of an author with a new, original voice when a character is described as being in ''the hurting trade.'' The character, whose specialty is the knife, frequents a pool room where N Walter Mosley's ''Devil in a Blue Dress,'' a suspenseful novel of human detection more than simply a detective novel, ![]()
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