4 books by Chester Himes
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Overview: Chester Bomar Himes began writing in the early 1930s while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery. From there, he produced short stories for periodicals such as Esquire and Abbott's Monthly. When released, he focussed on semi-autobiographical protest novels.
In 1953, Himes emigrated to France, where he was approached by Marcel Duhamel of Gallimard to write a detective series for Série Noire, which had published works from the likes of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson. Himes would be the first black author included in the series. The resulting Harlem Cycle gained him celebrity when he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Reine des Pommes (now known in English as A Rage in Harlem) in 1958. Three of these novels have been adapted into movies.
In 1968, Himes moved to Spain where he made his home until his death.
Genre: General Fiction
Cast the First Stone
Here is Chester Himes' great novel that rips aside the barred doors of prison life. An unforgettable story of what happens to a man in prison; a vivid re-creation of a perverse society with its own rules, its own taboos, its own virtues and grotesque vices...
Lonely Crusade
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.
The End of a Primitive
The shockingly honest novel of a daring and unconventional love affair.
Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmares and fantasies to a dirty, fitful real life in a noisy Harlem slum. He's an acclaimed black writer--or was. Now he lives on gin and chocolate and hangover cures, and women don't come near him...
Kriss wakes up alone, divorced, disillusioned, in her plush Manhattan apartment, to resume her high-salary, low-excitement existence on Madison Avenue, and wonders what went wrong...
They have nothing in common. Just one amazing, passionate weekend in Chicago, seven years ago, and a sudden, overwhelming urge to meet again, to throw off all that has happened since. But too much has happened, and what's up ahead may be just as passionate, but it might just be deadly...
Chester Himes' brilliant novel traces the violent collision-course of two headstrong and desperate lovers fighting their colour, their background, their past and each other, in the bright light and fury of New York.
The Third Generation
Struggling to pass as white, a dominating woman of mixed blood turns against her dark-skinned husband and dramatically clashes with her son, her family, and her world.
Frustrated by her husband’s devotion to his race and repelled by his physical presence, Lillian Taylor looked to her son, Charles, to fulfill her dreams. Between mother and son raged a heart-breaking love and an agonizing hatred which twisted their lives—and drove Charles to sordid depths in his effort to escape his mother’s desperate hold upon him.
Charles’s mother looked white and felt white, but she was unalterably black and she hated it. From his mother, Charles inherited his light skin and his rage—a rage that would catapult him past two societies into a violent no-man’s-land of self-destruction.
Here is a compelling novel of a family groping for a chance at happiness and security—thwarted by the false pride and rebellious desires of an embittered woman. Told with frankness and raw fury, this is the dramatic story of a beautiful, defiant woman whose hatred of her Negro heritage made her despise her dark-skinned husband and drive her son to debauchery and crime.
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Requirements: Epub reader, 1.4 MB
Overview: Chester Bomar Himes began writing in the early 1930s while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery. From there, he produced short stories for periodicals such as Esquire and Abbott's Monthly. When released, he focussed on semi-autobiographical protest novels.
In 1953, Himes emigrated to France, where he was approached by Marcel Duhamel of Gallimard to write a detective series for Série Noire, which had published works from the likes of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson. Himes would be the first black author included in the series. The resulting Harlem Cycle gained him celebrity when he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Reine des Pommes (now known in English as A Rage in Harlem) in 1958. Three of these novels have been adapted into movies.
In 1968, Himes moved to Spain where he made his home until his death.
Genre: General Fiction
Cast the First Stone
Here is Chester Himes' great novel that rips aside the barred doors of prison life. An unforgettable story of what happens to a man in prison; a vivid re-creation of a perverse society with its own rules, its own taboos, its own virtues and grotesque vices...
Lonely Crusade
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.
The End of a Primitive
The shockingly honest novel of a daring and unconventional love affair.
Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmares and fantasies to a dirty, fitful real life in a noisy Harlem slum. He's an acclaimed black writer--or was. Now he lives on gin and chocolate and hangover cures, and women don't come near him...
Kriss wakes up alone, divorced, disillusioned, in her plush Manhattan apartment, to resume her high-salary, low-excitement existence on Madison Avenue, and wonders what went wrong...
They have nothing in common. Just one amazing, passionate weekend in Chicago, seven years ago, and a sudden, overwhelming urge to meet again, to throw off all that has happened since. But too much has happened, and what's up ahead may be just as passionate, but it might just be deadly...
Chester Himes' brilliant novel traces the violent collision-course of two headstrong and desperate lovers fighting their colour, their background, their past and each other, in the bright light and fury of New York.
The Third Generation
Struggling to pass as white, a dominating woman of mixed blood turns against her dark-skinned husband and dramatically clashes with her son, her family, and her world.
Frustrated by her husband’s devotion to his race and repelled by his physical presence, Lillian Taylor looked to her son, Charles, to fulfill her dreams. Between mother and son raged a heart-breaking love and an agonizing hatred which twisted their lives—and drove Charles to sordid depths in his effort to escape his mother’s desperate hold upon him.
Charles’s mother looked white and felt white, but she was unalterably black and she hated it. From his mother, Charles inherited his light skin and his rage—a rage that would catapult him past two societies into a violent no-man’s-land of self-destruction.
Here is a compelling novel of a family groping for a chance at happiness and security—thwarted by the false pride and rebellious desires of an embittered woman. Told with frankness and raw fury, this is the dramatic story of a beautiful, defiant woman whose hatred of her Negro heritage made her despise her dark-skinned husband and drive her son to debauchery and crime.
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