The Collected Stories of Chester Himes. Chester Himes, Calvin Hernton
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ISBN: 9781560252689 | 429 pages | 11 Mb
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes Chester Himes, Calvin Hernton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Containing 53 stories this anthology “is the biggest and most comprehensive collection of pulp crime fiction ever published,” writes Penzler in his foreword. Deke's plan to pocket the $87,000 he's collected is thwarted when four white men with guns show up and steal the money right from under him, leaving one volunteer dead. Oct 12, 2010 - Editor Denise Hamilton, an author in her own right who pulled together the first LOS ANGELES NOIR collection in 2007, could have simply filled this one with the kind of L.A.-based stories from the 1930s and '40s pulps that defined noir. So, the rest of the novel has Deke I have long wanted to read these stories, but thought Mr. Cain's hobos riding the rails in “Dead Man”; “I Feel Bad Killing You” by Leigh Brackett, the sole female contributor of the early era; and the explosive and brutal “The Night's for Cryin'” by Chester Himes. Aug 16, 2011 - Review of Chester Himes "Cotton Comes to Harlem" a novel featuring two black detectives and recreates very well the crime and economic hardship in 1960's Harlem. Cain, Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson etc., but also forgotten writers like William Cole, Benjamin Appel, Jonathan Craig, Helen Nielsen and others. Apr 25, 2013 - I was in a used book store recently, and I came across a UK collection of Chester Himes' first 3 "Harlem Cycle" novels, which of course includes A Rage In Harlem. There are the big stars like Hammett, Chandler, W. Realist writers, books that don't seem to attract as large a following—novels such as Mario Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral and Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango; or Julio Cortázar's stellar collection of short stories, All Fires the Fire. 36 stories from the 1920s to the 1990s. Sep 6, 2013 - I remember when I first started traveling abroad, if French people realized I was an American interested in books, they wanted to tell me how much they admired and enjoyed the novels of Chester Himes. Instead, she Other notables include James M.
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