Walter Mosley: Blue Light (UK 2000) From the Publisher: Narrated by Chance, a half-black, half-white follower of the Blues, the novel traces their desperate conflict with one of their own, a man who - struck by the light at the moment he died - has become the living embodiment of Death. Blue Light refracts questions of identity, race and humanity - hallmarks of Waiter Mosley's writing - through a gripping adventure that puts a dazzling new spin on the relationship between past, present and future. Walter Mosley: Blue Light. Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852427337 (June, 2000), 296 p., £6.99.
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Walter Mosley: Blue Light (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Walter Mosley: Blue Light. Warner Books, ISBN 0446606928 (November, 1999), 371 p., $6.99 .
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Walter Mosley: Blue Light (UK 1999) From the Publisher: Walter Mosley: Blue Light. Serpent's Tail, ISBN 185242611X (May, 1999), 296 p., £9.99.
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Walter Mosley: Blue Light (USA 1998) From the Publisher: From an unknown point in the universe, an inscrutable blue light approaches our solar system. When it reaches Earth, it transforms those it strikes, causing them instantaneously to evolve beyond the present state of humanity. Each person imbued with the light becomes the full realization of his or her nature and potential, with strengths, understanding, and communication abilities far beyond our imagining. Blue Light is the story of these people and their transforrnation. Narrated by Chance, a biracial man whose entire life has been a struggle for self-definition, the novel traces the desperate conflict of the "Blues" with one of their own, a man who -- struck by the light at the moment he expired -- has become the living embodiment of death. Written as a kind of gospel in which Chance describes the wanderings of this tribe and their ultimate, apocalyptic battle, the account is also toll of his uncertainties -- about his own place in this strange new world and about whether he may be recording the beginning of the end of the human race. Blue Light explores questions about identity, race, and humanity -- the hallmarks of Walter Mosley's fiction -- but within a mind-stretching new framework. Written as the prelude to a projected trilogy, Blue Light is imaginative fiction of the highest caliber from one of the most adventurous thinkers and accomplished novelist at work today. Walter Mosley: Blue Light. A Novel. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN 0316570982 (October, 1998), 296 p., $24.00.
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