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Bezig met laden... Een rode dooddoor Walter Mosley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I would have rated it higher but honestly by the end of the book I could care less about Easy's sex life. The mystery was good but the sex scenes really got in the way of the story for me, I like well written sex as much as the next person but when you start noticing how often it is in the story--problem. ( ) Excellent mystery and great historical fiction. Even though the book is grittier than I usually care for, it didn't bother me in this one the way it so often does. Maybe it is because though Easy isn't exactly a law-abiding citizen all the time, he does have a conscience and doesn't go out of his way to look for trouble, the way so many of the criminal 'protagonists' in noir novels seem to do. I found the parts about Craxton looking for dirt on Jewish labor organizer (and concentration camp survivor) Chaim Wenzler particularly fascinating. Though Hoover's name is never mentioned, I could sense his shadow behind Craxton. Easy Rawlins salió bien librado de sus encuentros con un demonio vestido de azul y, además, con un buen puñado de dólares. Los invirtió muy sabiamente, y ahora es dueño de varias casas de apartamentos, y vive de las rentas. Nadie sabe que él es el propietario, pues Easy hace de portero, se encarga de la limpieza y el mantenimiento de los edificios y también se hace el tonto, y deja que el gordo señor Mofass, el administrador, se ocupe de cobrar la renta y apremiar a los inquilinos. Easy, no obstante, sabe que para los negros éste es un mundo muy difícil, sobre todo para los negros pobres que aspiran a serlo un poco menos. Los impuestos le acosan y, para defender sus propiedades, se ve obligado a aceptar el «trabajo» que le proporciona el F.B.I., que consiste en infiltrarse en la Primera Iglesia Baptista Africana, espiar a sus pastores y feligreses, y al rojo Chaim Wenzler, un judío superviviente de los campos de concentración nazis, que ahora hace beneficiencia para la muy negra iglesia baptista. I always started sweeping on the top floor of the Magnolia Street apartments. It was a three-story pink stucco building between Ninety-first Street and Ninety-first Place, just about a mile outside of Watts proper. Twelve units. All occupied for that month. I had just gathered the dirt into a neat pile when I heard Mofass drive up in his new '53 Pontiac. I knew it was him because there was something wrong with the transmission, you could hear it singing from a block away. I heard his door slam and his loud hello to Mrs. Trajillo, who always sat at her window on the first floor - best burglar alarm you could have. I didn't like this as much as the first one, but it was still a good read. It was a bit complicated, especially for an audiobook, but not bad. What I like most about both so far is that it takes me to a world that is very different; a different time, different place, and a different culture. It's still very accessible and understandable, though. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin.... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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