If He Hollers, Let Him Go
$17.71
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2025
Summary
The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, ‘written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger’ (Observer) Robert ‘Bob’ Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he has recently been promoted to supervisor at the Los Angeles shipyard where he works, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by white woman Madge. Over the course of four fraught days, he …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241692424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241692423 |
| Author: | Chester Himes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
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