A Rage In Harlem
A Crime, Cultural, Audiobook book. She held him at arms length, looked at the pipe still gripped inn his hand, then looked at his...
A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics.Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels to feature the hardboiled Harlem detectives 'Coffin' Ed Johnson and 'Grave Digger' Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a...
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- Pages: 211 pages
- ISBN: 9780141196442 / 141196440
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She held him at arms length, looked at the pipe still gripped inn 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...
I never heard of Chester Himes until my friend Kirk, in a discussion of Missouri, mentioned Mr. Himes was from J. City. I looked up the author, snagged A Rage in Harlem, and whoo, thanks, Kirk, and thanks, J. City.The novel purports to focus on two detectives (Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones) but, really, although they're cool,... Speaking of rage...it surprises me that Himes wasn't consumed with rage against America even sooner. Not as a little boy in Arkansas, when he watched his injured older brother refused admittance to an all-white hospital. Not in Cleveland, when he fell down an elevator shaft and was refused by a white hospital too. Not in Columbus, whenin... Fans of Raymond Chandler, Noir, Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
