If He Hollers Let Him Go - Brossura

Himes, Chester

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846687381 ISBN 13: 9781846687389

Casa editrice: Serpent's Tail, 2010

Riassunto

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear. Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945.

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Youthful, insulting, risky, brash, bad-assed, revolutionary, violent, and struts about as if to say, here come cocky Chester Himes, you litterateurs, and I hope you don't like it (Ishmael Reed)

The greatest, most brutally powerful novel of the best black novelist of his generation (Chicago Tribune)

Hard and fast and sure (New York Review of Books)

Relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America (LA Times)

One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century ... [a] quirky American genius (Walter Mosley)

Himes never soft-pedaled his disdain for the systemic racism of the day or for black integrationists, whom he referred to as "whining beggars" ... One hundred years after his birth, for better and for worse, the great Chester Himes remains nearly one of a kind (John Ridley, Emmy Award winning writer and commentator Huffington Post)

With his first novel, Chester Himes secured his place in the vanguard of the emerging young black writers of his time who were honestly detailing the rigors of black life in America ... If He Hollers Let Him Go is a masterpiece for its bitter and honest portrayal of the life of a normal black man in America (Barnes & Noble)

[Himes] taught me the difference between a black detective and Sherlock Holmes (Ishmael Reed)

America's central American black writer (James Sallis)

Brutal (The Times 2010-11-13)

Descrizione del libro

Acclaimed expose of racism in mid-twentieth century USA, now a Serpent's Tail Classic

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• Editore: Serpent's Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846687381
• ISBN 13: 9781846687389
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272