Chester Himes

Nov 1, 2024 | lesen.de | Neal Stephenson |Chester Himes |Ian Rankin |Michael Connelly

The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D. C.

Mar 28, 2024 | audible.com | Laura Sackton |Chester Himes

The groundbreaking late crime writer blended dark comedy and sharp social commentary with a hard-boiled edge. American writer Chester Himes has been long beloved for his popular Harlem Detective series, featuring the Grave Digger & Coffin Ed stories. He was born in Missouri in 1909, where his early experiences with Jim Crow laws and racial violence would come to shape his later work. In the late 1920s, he was arrested and sentenced to prison, and he began writing stories while incarcerated.

Jan 2, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Chester Himes

Chester Himes is sadly one of those authors whose novels are often forgotten in our contemporary times. It could be argued that Himes’ body of work is as important as that of Goodis, Highsmith, Thompson, Hammett, and Chandler in the Crime Fiction Genre. Whilst there are actually nine books in what is known as the Harlem Detective series, Everyman Library Classics have quite rightly published four of the most popular in this volume.

Jun 16, 2023 | repeatfanzine.co.uk | Sam Marsh |Jude Cook |Chester Himes |Ken Olende

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