Touched

Walter Mosley

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Touched

Touched

Walter Mosley

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Description

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive
standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy
that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the
country's most beloved and acclaimed writers
Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels
like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces
of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is
the Cure.Martin begins slipping into an alternate
consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the
only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles-- against
pure evil. Think Octavia Butler meets Jeff VanderMeer meets Jordan Peele.

Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touched
brilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technological
innovation threaten existence itself.

About the Author

Walter Mosley is the author of more than sixty critically-acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, a Grammy, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Edgar Award. He lives in New York City.

Critical Reviews

Praise for Touched and Walter Mosley:

"An expansive
dystopian fantasy that is equally sexy and incisive." - Entertainment Weekly

"Like a Black Mirror episode set against the Hollywood Hills." - Kirkus

"Walter Mosley is best known as one of contemporary
literature's pre-eminent crime novelists, but he's actually four or five
different writers rolled into one... He's an altogether thornier, more
idiosyncratic writer than readers may know, an inveterate investigator and
chronicler of his own heart, mind and soul." --New York Times

The prolific Mosley delights in the
wonderfully bizarre... He unfurls into greater and frankly breathtaking
complexity."--New York Times on The Awkward Black Man

"[Near] the recent
work of Julian Barnes and Roddy Doyle."--Wall Street Journal on The
Awkward Black Man

"We see [Mosley] as
a chronicler of Black life in America."--Washington Post on The
Awkward Black Man


"Tinged with sardonic humor and acerbic observations, many
echoing the pained, bristling voices of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin."--New
Yorker
on The Awkward Black Man

Publishing Information

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub date: 2023-10-10
Length: 176 pages

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