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The Third Generation - Paperback

by Chester Himes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chester HimesPublish date:03/18/25Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593686683ISBN-10:593686683UPC:9780593686683Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCH984YKGB
From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America

Lillian Taylor has three sons, a comfortable house, and a well-liked husband who teaches at a local college. But her contempt for her family's dark complexion infects this bright world until it begins to come undone. As one troubling incident leads to another, her husband is pushed to an ever more precarious existence and her best-loved son, Charles, sinks into a life of vice in the perilous borderland between black and white society. With piercing insight and emotional depth, The Third Generation chronicles the unraveling of a black family plagued by the pernicious psychological effects of racism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593686683ISBN-10:593686683UPC:9780593686683Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCH984YKGB
CHESTER HIMES began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 to 1936. From his first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), Himes dealt with the social and psychological repercussions of being black in a white-dominated society. Beginning in 1953, Himes moved to Europe, where he met and was strongly influenced by Richard Wright. It was in France that he began his best-known series of crime novels--including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)--featuring two Harlem policemen. As with Himes's earlier work, the series is characterized by violence and grisly, sardonic humor. He died in Spain in 1984.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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