A Rage in Harlem
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Jun '24
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9780241521083)
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.
The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.
The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler. * Sunday Times *
Outrageous, shocking, wonderful. * New York Times Book Review *
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.
Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis. * The New York Times *
He belongs with those great demented realists ... whose writing pitilessly exposes the ridiculousness of the human condition. -- Will Self
ISBN: 9780241685068
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 200g
224 pages