03441cam a2200373 4500 526785284 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316137072 0316137073 B000FC0YLI Amazon 5837af11-25d3-4bbc-8dcd-3da9a551c959 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 50599 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mosley, Walter. The Man in My Basement [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 235kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations. The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash 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 to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks. 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. African American Fiction. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/583/7AF/11/ManinMyBasement9780759508613.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5837AF11-25D3-4BBC-8DCD-3DA9A551C959&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/583/7AF/11/ManinMyBasement9780759508613.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5837AF11-25D3-4BBC-8DCD-3DA9A551C959&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/583/7AF/11/ManinMyBasement9780759508613.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5837AF11-25D3-4BBC-8DCD-3DA9A551C959&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)