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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679720405
ISBN-139780679720409
eBay Product ID (ePID)1038404
Product Key Features
Book TitleRage in Harlem
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, African American / General, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, African American / Mystery & Detective
GenreFiction
AuthorChester B. Himes
Book SeriesHarlem Detectives Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-040064
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." -- Newsweek "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." --John Edgar Wideman "Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." - Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius." -Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." -John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." - The New York Times, " A Rage in Harlem is broadly comic from the get-go, lulling the reader into a state of mirthful ease that makes Himes's sneaky exposé of white prejudice and Black suffering all the more shocking." --Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Candy House "Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." -- Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius." --Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." --John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." -- The New York Times, "Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." --Newsweek "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." --John Edgar Wideman "Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." -- Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius." --Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." --John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." -- The New York Times
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds--and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living--disguised as a Sister of Mercy--by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback., 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 him, Jackson has a savvy twin brother, Goldy, who, disguised as a Sister of Mercy, earns a living by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. Now for the big payback..., A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. "[This] Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." -- The New York Times For the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds--and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living--disguised as a Sister of Mercy--by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.
LC Classification NumberPS3515.I713F67 1989
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