All God's Chillun Got Pride

Chester Himes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2025
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-75210-4 (ISBN)

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best stories – from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly disproves the existence of racism in Los Angeles to a chilling drama in which a snake invades a family home.

Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. Aged nineteen he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail, where he began to write short stories. Upon release, he took a variety of jobs while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he wrote the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Archive
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	110 x 180 mm
Gewicht	100 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	0-241-75210-8 / 0241752108
ISBN-13	978-0-241-75210-4 / 9780241752104
Zustand	Neuware