Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560250944
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Autobiography of Chester Himes: My life of absurdity, the later years
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560250944
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Life of Absurdity
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560250944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The author shares the experiences of his later years as an internationally known writer in Paris' expatriate cafe society
Plan B
Author: Chester HimesPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0593686144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision of the effects of racism in America The roots of racism and persecution in Tomsson Black's ancestry are deep and staggering. In his own lifetime, his misfortunes have become unbearable and, as they mount, serve as an impetus for a final and cataclysmic act of vengeance—the violent overthrow of white society. When acclaimed crime writer Chester Himes died in Spain in 1984, it was rumored that an unfinished story in the Harlem Detective series existed that had all but extinguished his heroes and their fraught city in an explosive paroxysm of racial strife. Completed from his notes by Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner, Plan B is that harrowing story. Includes an illuminating introduction by editors Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner.
The Autobiography of Chester Himes: The quality of hurt
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Autobiography of Chester Himes: My life of absurdity
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Author: Lawrence P. JacksonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634132
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work Finalist for the PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called “one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “a quirky American genius” (Walter Mosely). He was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909–1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships—sometimes uneasy—with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson’s scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes’s improbable life—his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II–era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson’s biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States.
My Life of Absurdity
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Paragon House Publishers
ISBN: 9781557783073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This second volume in the autobiography of legendary writer Chester Himes talkes the reader into the heart of Paris expatriate cafe society in the 1950s, offering fascinating glimpse of lovers, three continents, and other black men like himself making their way as writers: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison.
A Rage in Harlem
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241685068
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.
The Autobiography of Chester Himes: The quality of hurt
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green
Author: Johnny RicoPublisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307494187
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico’s firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have picked Johnny Rico for a soldier. The son of an aging hippie father, Johnny was overeducated and hostile to all authority. But when 9/11 happened, the twenty-six-year-old probation officer dropped everything to become an “infantry combat killer.” But if he’d thought that serving his country would be the kind of authentic experience a reader of The Catcher in the Rye would love, he quickly realized he had another thing coming. In Afghanistan he found himself living a Lord of the Flies existence among soldiers who feared civilian life more than they feared the Taliban–guys like Private Cox, a musical prodigy busy “planning his future poverty,” and Private Mulbeck, who didn’t know precisely which country he was in. Life in a combat zone meant carnage and courage–but it also meant tedious hours standing guard, punctuated with thoughtful arguments about whether Bea Arthur was still alive. Utterly uncensored and full of dark wit, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is a poignant, frightening, and heartfelt view of life in this and every man’s army.