The Heat's On

The Heat's On
Chester Himes
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
25 Mar 2021 UK
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9780241521106
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' The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn' t be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn' t coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound. Chester Himes' s hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own.
The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler * Sunday Times * Outrageous, shocking, wonderful * New York Times Book Review * Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder. -- John Edgar Wideman Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A fine crime writer of Chandlerian subtlety though in a vein of sheer toughness very much his own * The Times * Chester Himes is the great lost crime writer, as well a great American dissident novelist per se, and an essential witness to his times. Every one of his beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it. -- Jonathan Letham Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis * The New York Times * He belongs with those great demented realists . . . whose writing pitilessly exposes the ridiculousness of the human condition -- Will Self
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241521106
Published: 25 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 168g
Pages: 224

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