Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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 Quality of Hurt
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN: 9780718111564
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The Quality of Hurt
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560250937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Offers a look at the author's early life in the Black ghetto and his later literary success
Chester Himes
Author: James SallisPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504073894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
“[A] smart, conscientious, often stylish biography” of the great African American crime writer of the mid-twentieth century (The New York Times). Best known for The Harlem Cycle, the series of crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, Chester Himes was a novelist and memoirist whose work was neglected and underappreciated in his native America during the 1950s and ’60s, even as he was awarded France’s most prestigious crime fiction prize. In this major biography, literary critic and fellow writer James Sallis examines the life of this “fascinating figure,” combining interviews of those who knew Himes best—including his second wife—with insightful and poignant writing (Publishers Weekly). “Himes wrote some of the 20th century’s most memorable crime fiction and has been compared to Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett. His life was just as spectacular as his novels. Sentenced to 25 years in prison for armed robbery when he was 19, he turned to writing while behind bars and, when released after serving eight years, published two novels. Their poor reception by the white establishment only confirmed Himes’s beliefs about racism in America. He eventually moved to Paris, spending most of the rest of his life abroad. While in Paris, he began to produce the crime fiction that would make him famous, including A Rage in Harlem and Cotton Comes to Harlem . . . [a] riveting biography.” —Library Journal (starred review) “Satisfying, thoughtful, long-overdue.” —Publishers Weekly “As intelligent, and as much fun to read, as a book by Himes himself. There is no higher praise.” —The Times (London)
The Autobiography of Chester Himes: My life of absurdity
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Autobiography of Chester Himes
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher: Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
ISBN: 9780385089098
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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.
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Author: Chester HimesPublisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 1847653111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear. Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945.
Chester Himes
Author: James SallisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802776396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A fascinating biography of crime writer Chester Himes chronicles his colorful personal life, from his youth as a petty criminal and prison experiences to his rise to success as an acclaimed poet, critic, and novelist, and his extraordinary literary work. Reprint.
My Life of Absurdity
Author: Chester B. HimesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American novelists
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description