The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey: A Novel

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4.6
18 reviews
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288
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time.

Marooned in an apartment that overflows with mementos from the past, 91-year-old Ptolemy Grey is all but forgotten by his family and the world. But when an unexpected opportunity arrives, everything changes for Ptolemy in ways as shocking and unanticipated as they are poignant and profound.

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4.6
18 reviews
A Google user
August 20, 2010
Mosley's best known and acclaimed for his mystery novels set in postwar L.A. with its underlying racial tensions. Occasionally, he transgresses into the role of a paperback philosopher-medicine man offering his diagnosis, prescription, and prognosis for pervasive social and racial ailments. Taking his fourth diversion into this realm, Mosley offers another stylized commentary with little redemptive quality and makes a rather weak contribution to the American racial debate. J.P. Miller, Cambridge, MA.
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Robby L. Elliott
September 1, 2023
Too not clear. What the author is displaying in the character and condition are so real of an older person needing assistance. There are many mental health problems in the condition that the main character is living. Good read!
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Nikki Rae
January 31, 2014
Got it at the Dollar Tree for $1 don't waste the other ten.!!!! Great read and such a beautifully painted story that brings a tear to eyes newly opened to the perspective of an old man suffering dementia and in his final years. God gives him a gift in the form of Robyn, making him feel things deep in his heart that cause him to love deeper than before and his family is up in arms. Read read read!!!
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About the author

Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated, beloved, and bestselling writers. His books have been translated into at least twenty-one languages, and have won numerous awards. Born in Los Angeles, Mosley lives in New York City.

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