by Chester Himes · Thunder's Mouth Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780938410737
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«The Third Generation» is the literary novel by Chester Himes, published by Thunder's Mouth Pr in paperback (350 pages, in English).
Autobiographical novel about a Black family tormented by colorism in postwar white America. Lillian Taylor despises her husband's dark skin and pins her hopes on Charles, her light-skinned son, who inherits her rage and ends up mired in vice on the border between Black and white society.
First edition from Thunder's Mouth Press, originally published in 1954. Part of the Classic Reprint Series and includes a foreword by John A. Williams.
For readers of literary fiction interested in African American narrative and twentieth-century American classics.
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.
