Bibliograph

The last days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley

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The last days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The last days of Ptolemy Grey

Oclc number

733731546

Responsibility statement

Walter Mosley

Summary

Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie

Target audience

adult

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