GONE FISHIN: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Smoke"

by Walter Mosley

1998

Status

Available

Publication

Pocket (1998), 272 pages

Description

A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.

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LibraryThing member Feleciak

3 Stars

Entertaining

This is a prequel to the Easy Rawlins series. It was an interesting, quick and easy rea

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LibraryThing member johnwbeha

I've got a pile of Walter Mosley's books to work through and although I had read a couple of the stand-alone books and one Easy Rawlins before this, this took me back to the beginning. If we were discussing comic books this would be an " origin" story set back before WW2 in rural Texas.
This lacks

the style of the Mosley books I have already read and is very dark in tone. If I was not already a fan I doubt that this would have turned me into one, but, given that I am it fills a hole in the back story and explains some aspects of Easy's relationship with Mouse.

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LibraryThing member JRCornell

Gone Fishin' marks the first appearance of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his sidekick Raymond "Mouse" Alexander. An atmospheric coming-of-age story, which gives the reluctant Easy an education in sex and death, family and forgiveness. The two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou

world of voodoo.

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LibraryThing member RonWelton

Gone Fishin' takes us back to an incident (oft mentioned in earlier Easy Rawlins novels) when Easy was 19 and accompanied Mouse down to Pariah, Texas to get what he believes is his inheritance from his father, daddyReese. They stop for a while at Mama Jo's, a witch who keeps the mummified head of

her husband on her windowsill. A stop where the love making and the fishin' are done with a violence that sickens Easy.

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