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The last days of Ptolemy Grey Cover Image Book

The last days of Ptolemy Grey / Walter Mosley.

Mosley, Walter. (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 1594487723
  • ISBN: 9781594487729
  • Physical Description: 277 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2010]

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Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
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