Chester B Himes
Author
Series
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) volume 417
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and lauded by Jean Cocteau as a "prodigious masterpiece," A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
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Description
Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her neck in the whole explosive business.
3) Run man run
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witness. A few days after Christmas, a white cop in New York is as drunk as he's ever been. And he's convinced his car has been stolen. He believes the thieves are the Black workers at a luncheonette on 37th and Fifth avenue, and when he staggers in, his .32 caliber goes off....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series. Years ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had a passionate weekend in Chicago, but they haven't seen each other since. Jesse's career as a novelist has been trending downward, and much of his time is spent drinking and brooding in his Harlem tenement. Kriss is divorced and infertile, disillusioned...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America. Lillian Taylor has three sons, a comfortable house, and a well-liked husband who teaches at a local college. But her contempt for her family's dark complexion infects this bright world until it begins to come undone. As one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife, and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in the life of Bob Jones, a black man who is constantly plagued by the effects of racism. Living in a society that is drenched in race consciousness has no doubt taken a toll on the way Jones behaves, thinks, and feels, especially when, at the end of his...
Series
Library of America volume 95
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt,...
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