Mosley departs from his Easy Rawlins mysteries for this thought-provoking novel.
Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature..
Charles\'s summer with a man in his Basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity.
At first he resists, but soon he is tempted -- tempted to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks.
Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he might, Charles cannot avoid being lured into Bennet\'s strange world.
Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of.
But financial necessity leaves him no choice.
There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble.
But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a Basement view.
The money would be welcome.
The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments.
The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles\'s basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why.
The man at Charles Blakey\'s door has a proposition almost too strange for words.
Hailed as a masterpiece -- the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank -- this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
When a mysterious white man offers to rent Charles\'s Basement for the summer, Charles embarks on a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity.
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling.
Mosley departs from his Easy Rawlins mysteries for this thought-provoking novel
