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Author : Chester B. Himes
Release : 1995
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 181/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conversations with Chester Himes by : Chester B. Himes
Download or read book Conversations with Chester Himes written by Chester B. Himes. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himes was equally revealing in the many interviews he granted during his long and tumultuous career in America and France.
Author : Edward Margolies
Release : 1997
Genre : African American novelists
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Several Lives of Chester Himes by : Edward Margolies
Download or read book The Several Lives of Chester Himes written by Edward Margolies. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical biography that reveals the varied profiles of the expatriate author
Author : Chester B. Himes
Release : 1999
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yesterday Will Make You Cry by : Chester B. Himes
Download or read book Yesterday Will Make You Cry written by Chester B. Himes. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today's United States." --H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation
Author : Chester Himes
Release : 2011-08-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Heat's On by : Chester Himes
Download or read book The Heat's On written by Chester Himes. This book was released on 2011-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.
Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Release : 2017-07-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chester B. Himes: A Biography by : Lawrence P. Jackson
Download or read book Chester B. Himes: A Biography written by Lawrence P. Jackson. This book was released on 2017-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
