Walter Mosley
Description
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In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves. Ben Dibbuk ha
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s a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together—years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig at a magazine called
Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn't. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge and perhaps the chance to feel again. With the same erotic force as
Killing Johnny Fry but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature,
Diablerie is a transfixing new novel from one of our most powerful writers.
Review
"Diablerie...shows a writer still interested in pushing his considerable talents, unbound by genre or commercial expectations."-- "Boston Globe"
"Mosley's latest focuses on big issues--identity, race, class, love, sex, guilt, alcoholism--with a composed, terrifying clarity."-- "Entertainment Weekly"
"The talented and uncompromising Walter Mosley has earned the right to write whatever he pleases."-- "Washington Post"
This is Mosley at his deepest and best, scratching away the faces we wear to reveal the person behind the masks.-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review"
About the Author
Walter Mosley is the New York Times author of more than fifty novels in several series, most notably fourteen Easy Rawlins mysteries, several of which have been made into major motion pictures. In 2020 he was a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and from the National Book Foundation. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an Edgar Award, O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of Americas Grand Master Award, PEN Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy Award, and and several NAACP Image Awards. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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