Chester Himes
Birth date: July 29, 1909
Died: November 12, 1984
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This was a bit silly, and very rough. I don’t know if it portrays life in Harlem in the 1950s realistically or not. If so, we comfortably-well-off white folks should all be ashamed. A few years back, some of the characters in an Easy Rawlins novel I was reading argued over who was the best author (m...
On ne se rend compte à quel point l'eau est bonne que quand le puits est à sec.
I ADORE this series. I come back to these books time and again and each time is as magical as the first time I read it.In this second installment of The Beacon Hill Sorcerer, we see Angel Salvatore and Simeon, First Elder of the only Vampire Bloodclan in Boston settling into their new bond. But the ...
3.5 starsThe 3rd novel in Himes's Harlem Cycle begins like a twisted Harlem version of an Agatha Christie mystery. During a liquor-filled wake for Big Joe Pullen, a man is killed on a bread basket with a very distinctive knife. There are many at the wake who have motive for killing him, including hi...
So, while I was reading Mosley, Easy Rawlins and a friend of his get into a discussion as to who is the greatest African American novelist, Chester Himes or Ralph Ellison. One or the other of them opts for Himes because he wrote more books and also because he wasn't afraid to show all society's shit...
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