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Yesterday Will Make You Cry

Yesterday Will Make You Cry - Paperback

by Chester Himes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chester HimesPublish date:03/18/25Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593686669ISBN-10:593686667UPC:9780593686669Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, LGBTQ+, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5PG2FWB0
From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite it

Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in "the hole," where inmates' sense of reality slips away in total darkness. When a fire breaks out amid these mounting indignities, it unleashes a deadly mayhem that leaves Jimmy feeling as though his entire world is disintegrating. But in its aftermath, he kindles a tender relationship with a fellow convict named Rico and finally catches a glimmer of hope.

Searing, exquisitely vivid, and ultimately affirming, Yesterday Will Make You Cry is a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite them.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593686669ISBN-10:593686667UPC:9780593686669Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, LGBTQ+, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5PG2FWB0
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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