The last days of Ptolemy Grey /
Mosley, Walter
The last days of Ptolemy Grey / Walter Mosley - New York : Riverhead Books, c2010 - 277 p. ; 21 cm
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.
English
9781594485503
Older African Americans--Fiction
African American families--Fiction
Old age--Fiction
Memory--Fiction
Domestic fiction
Psychological fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC MOS
The last days of Ptolemy Grey / Walter Mosley - New York : Riverhead Books, c2010 - 277 p. ; 21 cm
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.
English
9781594485503
Older African Americans--Fiction
African American families--Fiction
Old age--Fiction
Memory--Fiction
Domestic fiction
Psychological fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC MOS
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