Blue Light

Blue Light

by WalterMosley (Author)

Synopsis

In San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding. They become the Blues, powerful yet vulnerable. And Blue Light is their story. Narrated by Chance, a half-black, half-white follower of the Blues, the novel traces their desperate conflict with one of their own, a man who - struck by the light at the moment he died - has become the living embodiment of death. Blue Light refracts questions of identity, race and humanity - hallmarks of Walter Mosley's writing - through a gripping adventure that puts a dazzling new spin on the relationship between past, present and future.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: Main
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 08 Mar 1999

ISBN 10: 185242611X
ISBN 13: 9781852426118

Media Reviews
?A mad jaunt into the fantastic - urban transcendentalism with a soundtrack by George Clinton
Jonathan Lethem ?A visionary meditation on spirituality, evil, race and the ultimate fate of mankind? New York Times ?Undeniable power. Everything - violence, consummate evil, angelic compassion, sex - is magnified with operatic intensity... Tight, tough and focused? Locus 'Blue Light will capture you before you know it, surprise you just as you think you know what sort of story it is and give you a hell of a ride through the recent past -- Octavia E. Butler * author of Kindred *
Author Bio
Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.