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Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Smoke" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) Paperback – September 17, 2002

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  • Series: Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)
  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Washington Square Press (September 17, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743451759
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743451758
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA New Genre for Walter Mosley
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on May 3, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Great detective story writers can rise to being solid novelists. Ross MacDonald was clearly in this category. With Gone Fishin', Walter Mosley has attained that distinction in a new way -- he has gone into a new fictional genre.
Although this novel has the usual crime overlay, it is really a novel about coming of age in the South as a black person before the days of integration. With few books available on this subject, I suspect that Mosley may have set the standard for other authors to meet.
For me, a lot of the charm of the Easy Rawlins stories is their historical setting in the more prejudiced days of the past. How does an intelligent, honorable black person deal with this? The stories are interesting for both what they say about society and for the great plots and character development.
This book, a prequel to the others in the series, does the same, but in a different setting -- far a way from Southern California.
I found it to be an excellent gothic novel, and encourage you to read it as such. If you open this book expecting another Easy Rawlins detective story, you may be disappointed. On the other hand, if you leave yourself open to what you find here, you will probably be rewarded. Moseley's fans need to live up to his talent, and follow him where his skills take him.
If you have not read the Walter Mosley books before, I suggest you start with this one. You'll make more sense out of the rest of the series. You'll also be less likely to be disturbed by the shift in genre. Anyone who enjoys this book will find the detective novels to be an easy follow on.
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4.0 out of 5 starspleasant change of pace for Easy & Mouse
By Orrin C. Judd VINE VOICE on November 22, 2000
Format: Paperback
Having chronicled Easy's adventures from the '40s to the '60s, Mosley jumps back in time to when easy and Mouse were 19 year olds on the threshhold of manhood. Mouse is about to marry Etta Mae & wants to bring a dowry to the marriage. He decides to go ask his stepfather for some money & things don't work out real well.
This series has been consistently excellent & it's fun to see the characters as young men.
GRADE: B
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Great Summer Read!
By A Customer on June 30, 1998
Format: Paperback
If you're looking for a true summer adventure--and you happen to be a fan of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series--don't miss this one. "Gone Fishin'" is a prequel to the other novels--it begins in Houston in the late 1930's where Easy and his murderous pal Mouse are two young black men looking for fortune in a white man's world. That leads them on trip into the dark recesses of the East Texas Piney Woods, where the city boys discover there's plenty of sex, black magic and killing out under the trees. Mosley wonderfully captures the dialect of that region from that era--to me, it had a familiar ring. To others, it may require a bit of concentration, but it's worth the effort. With "Gone Fishin'", Mosley has created a grownup "Huck Finn" style adventure that reads like a movie. If you're like me, after Denzel Washington's portrayal of Easy in "Devil In A Blue Dress", you see Denzel in your head whenever you're reading about Easy Rawlins. Imagine him as a youngster--not yet the cool sleuth he'll become later in LA--and you've got the character Mosley creates for "Gone Fishin'". The only bad thing I can say about this book is that I was finished with it before I wanted to be.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNo mystery why Mosley is so good
By Ian Fowler on November 4, 2004
Format: Paperback
I read some of Walter Mosley's "Easy Rawlins" mysteries a few years ago. I recently decided to begin reading them again, starting with the prequel story "Gone Fishin'".

This was actually the first novel Mosley wrote about Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his psychotic friend Raymond "Mouse" Alexander. However, for whatever reasons, it never found a publisher. However, "Devil in a Blue Dress" the second novel, was published. I imagine that at least one reason "Devil" published is its more commercial status. It's a mystery, set in California in 1948. In other words, it's a straightforward book to categorize, and thus, far more marketable.

"Gone Fishin'" is not a mystery, nor is it a real crime novel (although there is a fair amount of crime and mystery in the proceedings). It is instead, a wonderfully grim coming of age story about two friends, both black, living in Texas before WW II. Mouse is getting married, but has no money to finance a proper wedding. Easy, Mouse's closest friend, and our "hero", agrees to drive Mouse to his hometown of Pariah, TX, with a vague plan to get the necessary funds from Mouse's hated stepfather. Readers of other books in the "Easy Rawlins" series will know how that turns out. But, as is the case with prequels, it's not the ending that really matters, it's the story that leads to that ending.

The most significant aspect of "Gone Fishin" is that it underlines the basic inconsequence of dividing fiction into genres and sub-genres. Mosley tackles many of the same issues here that he tackles in his mysteries. Easy is a man with feet of clay. He's mostly likeable, but like all really great protagonists, he has numerous off-putting flaws.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsSo-So Prequel to the Easy Rawlins Series
By A. Ross HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 13, 2004
Format: Paperback
If you've read the Easy Rawlins series, this prequel novella may come as a bit of a surprise. Set in 1939, when Easy is a naive and somewhat innocent 19, it's the story of him and Mouse taking a little road trip from Houston to the bayou country of Pariah, Texas. Mouse is planning to visit his fearsome stepfather to try and get some money out of him to finance his wedding to Etta-Mae. Easy is enlisted as driver on this enterprise, and the tone turns dark right away, when they pick up a hitchhiking young couple. The man is on the run for having possibly beaten another man to death in a bar fight, and his girl is a sexy little flirt who seems to enjoy having men argue over her. Mouse convinces them to let him help, and you know the only thing that will come of it is sex and violence. Mouse leads them all deep into the back country to stay with a strange old witch-like woman, who mixes them potions and weaves a different kind of magic on Easy. Instead of the straightforward realistic crime story readers of the series might expect, this is an atmospheric and sometimes surreal gothic tale. Even in such a brief story, Mosley manages to cram in a lot of characters with their own stories, but it all boils down to Mouse's quest for a portion of his mother's dowry. Of course, everything climaxes in violence, and this so unsettles Easy that he is spurred to leave Houston and join the Army. It's not so much a coming of age story as a loss of innocence one.
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Published 4 days ago by Jacqueline Carr
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Read it last month and started with smoke and then realized that was
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5.0 out of 5 starsCan never get enough Easy Rawlins!

At the top of writers today.

Published 12 months ago by Rob Larson
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Great insight into the migration of African Americans to California.

Published 13 months ago by P. Williams
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Walter Mosley is the best

Published 14 months ago by Shayna L.
5.0 out of 5 starsWalter Mosely at his best.

I loved this book. This book explains the dynamic between Easy and Mouse and Mr. Mosley explains it with his natural flair.

Published 14 months ago by Alvan A. Arzu
4.0 out of 5 starsA good read, but not as good as the authors ...

A good read, but not as good as the authors others. It does give excellent background on the life of protagonist Easy.

Published 20 months ago by Pam McCray
5.0 out of 5 starsGives early background on the characters of Easy Rollins and Raymond...

Gives early background on the characters of Easy Rollins and Raymond (Mouse) Alexander that fills in the holes of their relationship.

Published 20 months ago by Judy Drummond
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