![]() ![]() Women live with me the same way that they'd go on a vacation after a week or two they were ready to get back to the lives they knew and loved.''įearless is huge, strong and fearless, and Paris is small and easily terrified, but they both do what needs to be done. ![]() ''I couldn't keep a girlfriend,'' Paris writes, ''because I didn't make much money selling books and my favorite pastime was sitting alone and reading. ![]() A 12-year-old might have been a better reader, but if he ever looked into your eyes he would know more about your character than any psychiatrist, detective, or priest'' - but by his friend, Paris Minton, who owns a used-book store. ''Fear Itself'' is second in what Mosley calls his Fearless Jones novels, which are narrated not by Jones - who ''wasn't a smart man. Walter Mosley's latest, ''Fear Itself,'' is a Brooklyn Bridge of plotting - no minimalist, single-pier structure for this book, but an ornate, colorful structure of symbolic steel that only grows more beautiful the closer you get to it.Īnd traveling over Mosley's latest bridge are more of his memorably drawn characters and a fascinating story set in 1950s Los Angeles, when the color lines were lit in stark contrast, before television had homogenized the middle classes. ![]() John Orr reviews Walter Mosley's FEAR ITSELF ![]()
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