Download or read book 47 written by Walter Mosley and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.