All God's Chillun Got Pride
$16.45
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.
Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best stories - from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly disproves the existence of racism in Los Angeles to a chilling drama in which a snake invades a family home.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752104 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241752108 |
| Author: | Chester Himes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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About The Author
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. Aged nineteen he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail, where he began to write short stories. Upon release, he took a variety of jobs while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he wrote the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand prix de litterature polici re. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
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