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A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

By Chester Himes

By Chester Himes

By Chester Himes

By Chester Himes

By Chester Himes

By Chester Himes

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Part of Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Anniversary Edition

Part of Harlem Detectives

Part of Harlem Detectives

Category: Noir Mysteries

Category: Noir Mysteries

Category: Noir Mysteries

Paperback $16.00

Aug 09, 2022 | ISBN 9780593311943

Paperback $15.00

Dec 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679720409

Ebook $7.99

Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780307803290

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    About A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

    A special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.

    For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.

    “Himes’s Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —The New York Times

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    About A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

    A ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
     
    “Himes’s Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —The New York Times

    For the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.

    About A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

    A ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
     
    “Himes’s Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —The New York Times

    For the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.

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    About Chester Himes

    Chester (Bomar) Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 – 1936. His account of the horrific 1930 Penitentiary fire that killed over three hundred men appeared in Esquire in 1932… More about Chester Himes

    About Chester Himes

    Chester (Bomar) Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 – 1936. His account of the horrific 1930 Penitentiary fire that killed over three hundred men appeared in Esquire in 1932… More about Chester Himes

    About Chester Himes

    Chester (Bomar) Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 – 1936. His account of the horrific 1930 Penitentiary fire that killed over three hundred men appeared in Esquire in 1932… More about Chester Himes

    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Aug 09, 2022 | 176 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593311943

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 17, 1989 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679720409

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jul 20, 2011 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780307803290
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    Praise

    “Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles.”
        —Newsweek

    “One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.”
        —Walter Mosley

    “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.”
        —John Edgar Wideman
     
    “Himes’s Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.”
        —The New York Times

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