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Touched
Reader Score
75%
75% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publish Date: Oct 10th, 2023
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.40in - 4.90in - 0.90in - 0.57lb
- EAN: 9780802161840
- Categories: • Science Fiction - Action & Adventure• Dystopian• Action & Adventure
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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.
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What people are saying
"The novel is complicated in compelling ways by the racial dynamics and overt gestures toward a pandemic, as Tor Waxman spreads feverish death via unseen contagion to nearly 5,000 souls. Fast-moving action and jaw-dropping twists move this slim volume along at a dizzying rate."
An independent literary publisher since 1917. Imprints: Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, Black Cat, Roxane Gay Books. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
Our friends at @The_CWA have announced this year’s longlists, as well as the recipient of the coveted Diamond Dagger: the great Walter Mosley! We couldn’t be happier to congratulate him, & can’t wait to publish his novel TOUCHED (https://t.co/XxAEVsban9) this fall! https://t.co/GcYWKhD29x
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
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
What people are saying
"The novel is complicated in compelling ways by the racial dynamics and overt gestures toward a pandemic, as Tor Waxman spreads feverish death via unseen contagion to nearly 5,000 souls. Fast-moving action and jaw-dropping twists move this slim volume along at a dizzying rate."
An independent literary publisher since 1917. Imprints: Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, Black Cat, Roxane Gay Books. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
Our friends at @The_CWA have announced this year’s longlists, as well as the recipient of the coveted Diamond Dagger: the great Walter Mosley! We couldn’t be happier to congratulate him, & can’t wait to publish his novel TOUCHED (https://t.co/XxAEVsban9) this fall! https://t.co/GcYWKhD29x