"Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next." ?_New York Times_ After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like _If He Hollers Let Him Go_ and _The Lonely Crusade_ , Chester Himes crea
The big gold dream
β Scribed by Himes, Chester
- Book ID
- 109055074
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Series
- Harlem Cycle 4
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: CHESTER HIMES was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man With a Pistol, Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Crazy Kill, The Real Cool Killers, and The Heatβs On, all available from Vintage.
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SUMMARY: Chester Himes, the greatest hardboiled crime writer since Raymond Chandler, is back in print with Pegasus Books. After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest likeIf He Hollers Let Him GoandThe Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair