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Beschreibung

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's recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces day-in-day-out become unbearable. Chester Himes's shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel.

'A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America' LA Times

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's recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces day-in-day-out become unbearable. Chester Himes's shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel.

'A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America' LA Times

Über den Autor
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. Aged nineteen he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail, where he began to write short stories. Upon release, he took a variety of jobs while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he wrote the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 256 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241692424
ISBN-10: 0241692423
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Himes, Chester
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 124 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Chester Himes
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,192 kg
Artikel-ID: 128728611