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Cotton Comes to Harlem de Chester Himes

Cotton Comes to Harlem: Penguin Crime

Autor Chester Himes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2023
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph

A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.
The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...
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ISBN-13: 9780241639221
ISBN-10: 0241639220
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 126 x 194 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seriile Penguin Crime, Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage

Notă biografică

Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.

Recenzii

The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler
A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest
Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder.
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.
A fantasia with a hard brilliant core
A fine crime writer of Chandlerian subtlety though in a vein of sheer toughness very much his own
That he could channel this pain and misery into some of the greatest crime novels ever written is a testament to his skill as a writer and his spirit as a man. If this is the first Chester Himes novel you will read then, believe me, you are in for a treat.
He belongs with those great demented realists ... whose writing pitilessly exposes the ridiculousness of the human condition
Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis
Chester Himes is the great lost crime writer, as well a great American dissident novelist per se, and an essential witness to his times. Every one of his beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it.