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Gone Fishin'
- An Easy Rawlins Novel
- Narrated by: Paul Winfield
- Series: Easy Rawlins (abridged), Book 6
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
In the beginning, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander were merely two young men hitting the road. In a "borrowed" 1936 Ford, they head for Pariah, Texas on a mission to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather so he can marry his EttaMae.
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- soliDEOgloria
- 04-09-19
Mosley is a master of the time machine!
The early years of Easy and Mouse were as sharp edged as those most readers are familiar with. Get intro to Mama Jo, and the desperation of Raymond “mouse” and the tight wire walk that is Easy Rawlins life from the beginning. Worth the listen save the short erotica segment that always seems out of place to this reader.
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- Willow Young
- 04-11-21
Discography? Wonderful music throughout this production! Who is singing and playing. Would love to see the musicians credited!!
Loved the backstory to EZ and Mouses life. The reader was much better, this round.
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- Samein L Priester
- 10-22-20
Yes indeed!
This a beautifully written and spoken story of a moment in time of The Black experience. Mosley is a master at what he does as is Winfield.
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- Smacd77
- 07-08-20
Easily weakest book in Easy Rawlins series
no disrespect to the dead, but I didn't like Paul Winfield as the narrator at all. maybe because I'm used to Michael Boatman and another narrator whose name I can't remember right now (their voices and cadence weren't that different) reading these stories. On top of that, there wasn't much to the story. Some of the main occurrences I already knew about from Easy reflecting on them in other books.
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- Pam Swearingen
- 04-15-20
Masterful
Walter Mosley captures the heart of every American going through hard times as they learn about the realities of life; and the legendary actor, Paul Winfield reads EZ’s story with a command and innocence that only a child of this era (or should I say, a real veteran), The Great Migration, could. If you don’t know, then you don’t know.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-02-20
Gone fishing
Excellent ,I love Walter Mosley books especially the easy Rawlins novels,there is no better fiction reading material
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- dina washington
- 08-30-19
The beginning
Loved it. Story cleared up questions about Easy and Mouse's origins. Struggled to understand the narrator.
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- Dandydon
- 11-14-21
Good Read
Not a bad story did not struggle to finish. Good narration once again. Audiobooks are a good deal.
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- Sarita r.
- 02-28-21
EZ RAWLINS W/ LISP?
I am a avid follower of the EZ Rawlins series , and anticipated this story. I LOVE EZ Rawlins and Mouse, but NOT this narrator. He takes the smooth from EZ and makes him sound like an old man and Mouse sounds like a whispering girl! This story explains the whole EZ, Mouse and Mama Jo connection but I struggled getting thru this book. Now... Michael Boatman IS EZ so PULEEZE let him continue to read for this series!!!
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- cheryl james
- 06-20-20
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This was not my favorite Easy Rawlins book but i am determined to finish the series.