Yesterday Will Make You Cry: A Novel by Chester Himes

Yesterday Will Make You Cry: A Novel by Chester Himes

A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chester Himes's first, most powerful, and autobiographical novel. This Old School Books edition presents it for the first time precisely as Himes wrote it, a sardonic masterpiece of debasement and transfiguration in an American penitentiary and one of his most enduring literary achievements.

After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously charming African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who attempt to maintain some kind of order in a series of violent and funny page-turners.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780393045772
ISBN 10	0393045773
Titel	Yesterday Will Make You Cry: A Novel
Autor	Chester Himes
Serie	Old School Books
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr	1998-02-17
Seitenanzahl	368
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.