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Paperback Books by Chester B. Himes
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| Publication Date: August 2002 |
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| Publication Date: March 2000 |
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| Yesterday Will Make You Cry |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 1999 |
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| Lonely Crusade (Himes, Chester) |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: June 1997 |
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| Blind Man with a Pistol |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is dose to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace-their... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 1989 |
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| A Rage in Harlem |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| For the love of fine and wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson loses his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds and steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a crap table. Luckily for... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 1989 |
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| Publication Date: December 1989 |
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| Cotton Comes to Harlem |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| Set in Harlem's underside in the 1950s, a fast-paced tale of mystery and intrigue unfolds as Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones work to halt the theft of thousands of dollars marked for the Back-to-Africa movement |
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| Publication Date: December 1988 |
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| The Heat's On |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| From the start nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. Dead bodies are piling up faster than they can run, and Coffin Ed and Grave Digger seem to always be one step behind the cause of all the mayhem--$3 million worth of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1988 |
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| The Real Cool Killers |
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| by Chester B. Himes |
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| 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1988 |
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