

John Woman
Author: Walter Mosley
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/04/2018
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Walter Mosley
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/04/2018
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction
Walter Mosley is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, he has won numerous awards, including the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and several NAACP Image Awards. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His short fiction has appeared in a wide array of publications, including The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and Playboy, and his nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and The Nation. He is the author of Down the River unto the Sea. He lives in New York City.
Dion Graham, from HBO’s The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award–winning narrator and critically acclaimed actor, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series.
I'd previously read a couple of Mosley’s books (Cinnamon Kiss and Down the River Unto the Sea) and though I’d appreciated the prose I didn't really enjoy the way in which the stories were stitched together. But I knew the man could write and I’d read enough about this book to know that this was a de......more
This is one of the most deeply aggravating novels I've ever read. The characters are unbelievable, the story line ridiculous, the action implausible, the relationships between men and women misogynistic and frequently repulsive. The hoped-for scenes of denouement come and go without resolution: afte......more
Ah, another book by Walter Mosley. If you are familiar with Mosley from his Easy Rawlins series, this may not be a satisfying read for you. If you are familiar with Mosley from his Leonid McGill series, it might be an easier transition. Mosley has given his readers many facets of the plight of the po......more
I've read several of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins titles and have enjoyed them all, but there is something special about his most recent offering "John Woman." As always, Mosley's characters are fully filled out with strengths and weaknesses that allow them to be believable and achievable. Men and wo......more
A most unorthodox novel from Walter Mosley. But as the master he is, Mosley is able to write across genres without any falloff from his usual focus. You the reader, may never think the same way about the subject of history and its convention as useful and practical for study. Mosley delights with Jo......more
“Dion Graham expressively narrates this mind-bending…metafiction that asks questions about the relationship between history and who is telling its stories, and Graham’s outstanding narration captures its continually shifting tones…[A] dark, riveting audiobook.” AudioFile
“An intellectual romp by the renowned mystery writer.” O, The Oprah Magazine
“A smart sly novel of ideas…Defying genre, Mosley’s latest novel is much like his eponymous hero: speculative, brilliant and wildly original.” National Book Review
“Seamlessly combines elements of dystopian thrillers, psychological crime, philosophical fiction, and straightforward melodrama. His rich, earthy prose burrows through complex abstract ideas and suspenseful plot twists with equal utility.” AV Club
“This fantastic, surprising, humane, and somewhat perverse book is one of Mosley’s best.” BookPage
“Highly recommended for all smart readers.” Library Journal (starred review)
“Mosley is at his commanding, comfort-zone-blasting best in this heady tale of a fugitive genius….[with] arresting insights into race, freedom, power, and the stories we tell to try to make sense of the ceaseless torrent of human conflict and desire.” Booklist (starred review)
“Fast paced but still full of provocative questions about society, the story grounds the wilder aspects of its plot by providing a fascinating cast of endearing characters…An unpredictable, unabashedly strange good time.” Publishers Weekly
“Taut, riveting, and artfully edgy…Somehow, it makes sense that when Walter Mosley puts forth a novel of ideas, it arrives with the unexpected force of a left hook and the metallic gleam of a new firearm.” Kirkus Reviews