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The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. He wants to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view. There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of. Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he might, Charles cannot avoid being lured into Bennet's strange world. At first he resists, but soon he is tempted-tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks. Tempted to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him. Charles's summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature.
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Race relations, Home ownership, Fiction, Landlord and tenant, African American men, Identity (Psychology), Power (Social sciences), African americans, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mystery, African American Fiction, Psychological, Thriller, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Psychological aspects, Imprisonment, African AmericansPlaces
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The Man in My Basement: A Novel
February 2, 2005, Back Bay Books
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031615931X 9780316159319
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The man in my basement: a novel
2004, Little, Brown
in English
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The Man in My Basement
2004, Little, Brown and Company
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""Mr. Blakey?" the small white man asked."
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