Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature. At first he resists, but soon he is tempted - tempted to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks.Ĭharles's summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he might, Charles cannot avoid being lured into Bennet's strange world. EXCLUSIVE: The Man In My Basement, Walter Mosley ’s acclaimed novel, is heading to the big screen with the American author scripting his own adaptation. Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of. Charles's summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble.

But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view.

The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. Blakey, descended from a line of free blacks reaching back into 17th-century America, lives alone in the big family house in Sag Harbor. The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.

The man in my basement by walter mosley