Walkin' the Dog - Hardcover

Mosley, Walter

4.15

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316570540 ISBN 13: 9780316570541

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2000

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Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a girlfriend now, a steady job, and he is even caring for a pet, the two-legged dog he calls Killer. These responsibilities make finding the right path even harder - especially when the police make Socrates their first suspect in every crime within six blocks.

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"I wrote this love story straight from my heart with the help of photographs I took while adopting my daughter, and I gave those pictures to Jane, who has filled every page with the very special love I have for my daughter and all the children who come into this world ready to be loved."

About the Author:

Rose Lewis has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. An accomplished still photographer and an award-winning producer for WCVB-TV in Boston, she lives with her daughter in Massachusetts.

Jane Dyer is the illustrator of her own anthology, Animal Crackers; Time for Bed, by Mem Fox; Child of Faerie, Child of Earth, by Jane Yolen; Here Is My Heart: Love Poems, selected by William Jay Smith; and Blue Moon Soup: A Family Cookbook, with recipes by Gary Goss. Jane Dyer lives in Massachusetts.

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