A Rage in Harlem
Chester Himes
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
For the love of Imabelle, Jackson loses his life savings to a con man, steals from his boss, and loses the stolen money at the crap table. A Chester Himes' classic.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publish Date
December 17, 1989
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.0 X 8.12 X 0.45 inches | 0.33 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780679720409
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About the Author
CHESTER HIMES began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 to 1936. From his first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), Himes dealt with the social and psychological repercussions of being black in a white-dominated society. Beginning in 1953, Himes moved to Europe, where he met and was strongly influenced by Richard Wright. It was in France that he began his best-known series of crime novels--including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)--featuring two Harlem policemen. As with Himes's earlier work, the series is characterized by violence and grisly, sardonic humor. He died in Spain in 1984.
Reviews
"Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles."
--Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder."
--John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction."
--The New York Times
--Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder."
--John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction."
--The New York Times
