Richly textured and compelling, The Man in My Basement is a new literary pinnacle from an acknowledged American master. Sure enough, he has a very particular-and bizarre-set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness.īut he sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free.
It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. 5, 2004 In Mosley’s boldly understated fable, an unemployed African-American agrees to rent space in his basement to a wealthy white businessman for two months. The Man in My Basement Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT by Walter Mosley RELEASE DATE: Jan. But there are a few conditions: As a kind of. When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. You're a down-on-your-luck black man living in your family home in the Hamptons. One day, Anniston Bennett, a wealthy, 57-year-old WASP, appears at Charles doorstep and offers 50,000 to rent his basement for the summer. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling.
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