White Butterfly (Five Star Paperback) (Five Star Paperback) [Import] [Paperback]

Walter Mosley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail (December 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852429828
• ISBN-13: 978-1852429829
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Walter Mosley is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, including national bestsellers Cinnamon Kiss, Little Scarlet, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown; the Fearless Jones series, including Fearless Jones, Fear Itself, and Fear of the Dark; the novels Blue Light and RL's Dream; and two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and Walkin' the Dog. He lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mystery novel as work of art, March 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: WHITE BUTTERFLY (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (Paperback)

This is a wonderfully crafted novel that takes Easy Rawlins into uncharted emotional waters. I give it four stars instead of five only because I felt the resolution to the mystery aspect of the story was a little too pat. However, the moving and unexpected emotional crisis faced by Easy near the end was truly heartbreaking. As with all the Easy Rawlins books, author Walter Mosley has taken the tried-and-true mystery genre and turned it into a commentary on race and class. Taken together, these books constitute an American masterpiece, and White Butterfly is one of the best.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction..., August 21, 2000

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Erik J. Larsen (st. paul, mn) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WHITE BUTTERFLY (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (Paperback)

This was my first Mosley/Easy Rawlins mystery and I enjoyed it immensely. It had depth of character and interesting plot twists and turns. I also liked the fact that it was a story about African Americans in 1956 Los Angeles and it didn't rely on the 'N' word for shock value (unlike Ellroy and a few others). I think it was a great introduction to the series.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong Plot Strong Characters, September 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (Hardcover)

... Mosley gives us a male character who isn't afraid to cry and when he gets angry he doesn't get violent but does get even. The mystery surrounding the death of the white stripper is cleverly written into the plot and when the clues reveal the killer they all make sense. This series improves with each novel and Easy is turning into a complex person who has demons of his own to battle.