by Chester B. Himes · Mercury Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781852427047
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«If He Hollers Let Him Go» is the novel by Chester B. Himes, published by Mercury Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Set in Los Angeles during World War II, it follows Bob Jones, a Black shipyard worker with steady employment and a romantic relationship. When a white woman accuses him of rape, the novel portrays four days of fear, anger and paranoia in which racism prevents him from feeling he has a future.
First novel by Chester B. Himes, originally published in 1945; this Mercury Books edition dates from 1999.
For readers of African American fiction and historical narrative about racism in the United States.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
