Chester Himes
Born
in Jefferson City, The United States
July 29, 1909
Died
November 12, 1984
Genre
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
29 editions
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published
1957
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
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55 editions
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published
1945
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The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
44 editions
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published
1958
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #7)
16 editions
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published
1964
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Blind Man with a Pistol (Harlem Cycle, #8)
39 editions
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published
1969
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The Heat's On (Harlem Cycle, #6)
64 editions
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published
1961
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The Crazy Kill (Harlem Cycle, #3)
53 editions
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published
1959
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All Shot Up (Harlem Cycle, #5)
56 editions
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published
1960
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The Big Gold Dream (Harlem Cycle, #4)
13 editions
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published
1959
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Yesterday Will Make You Cry
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“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
“Don't ever lean your whole weight on happiness, Jimmy. You fall too hard too hard when it gives away”
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
“She held him at armsâ€� length, looked at the pipe still gripped in his hand, then looked at his face and read him like a book. She ran the tip of her red tongue slowly across her full cushiony, sensuous lips, making them wet-red and looked him straight in the eyes with her own glassy, speckled bedroom eyes.
The man drowned.
When he came up, he stared back, passion cocked, his whole black being on a live-wire edge. Ready! Solid ready to cut throats, crack skulls, dodge police, steal hearses, drink muddy water, live in a hollow log, and take any rape-fiend chance to be once more in the arms of his high-yellow heart.”
― A Rage in Harlem
The man drowned.
When he came up, he stared back, passion cocked, his whole black being on a live-wire edge. Ready! Solid ready to cut throats, crack skulls, dodge police, steal hearses, drink muddy water, live in a hollow log, and take any rape-fiend chance to be once more in the arms of his high-yellow heart.”
― A Rage in Harlem
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