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If He Hollers, Let Him Go

Chester Himes
Englisch | Taschenbuch

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)<BR><BR>Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he's recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces day-in-day-out become unbearable. Chester Himes's shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel.<BR><BR>'A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America' LA Times

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The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)<BR><BR>Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he's recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces day-in-day-out become unbearable. Chester Himes's shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel.<BR><BR>'A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America' LA Times

H | B | T | Gramm
196 mm | 124 mm | 24 mm | 192 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Penguin UK
ISBN-10
0241692423
Autor
Chester Himes
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
242
Themen
Rassismus und rassistische Diskriminierung / Antirassismus, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Vielfalt, Gerechtigkeit, Gleichheit und Inklusion, Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert, Klassische Kriminalromane und Mystery, Los Angeles, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Soziales / Soziale Probleme, Kriminalromane und Mystery: Hard Boiled, Roman noir
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