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If He Hollers Let Him Go (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560254454)
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xA powerful story of racism that's as pertinent today as when the book was first published
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 story, he is accused of a brutal crime he did not commit. "One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century . . . [a] quirky American genius . . ."--Walter Mosley, author of Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Devil in a Blue Dress "If He Hollers is an austere and concentrated study of black experience, set in southern California in the early forties."--Independent Publisher
Author: Chester Himes
ISBN-10: 1560254459
ISBN-13: 9781560254454
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.58w x 0.62d
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 42
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 story, he is accused of a brutal crime he did not commit. "One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century . . . [a] quirky American genius . . ."--Walter Mosley, author of Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Devil in a Blue Dress "If He Hollers is an austere and concentrated study of black experience, set in southern California in the early forties."--Independent Publisher
Author: Chester Himes
ISBN-10: 1560254459
ISBN-13: 9781560254454
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.58w x 0.62d
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 42
By Chester Himes
xChester Himes was the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, and two films. Himes, who began writing while serving a prison term for jewel theft in the early 1940s, is best known for his angry social criticism in books like If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade and for his memorable Harlem detective novels.
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