Chester Himes If He Hollers, Let Him Go Paperback Book

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger (Observer)Robert Bob Jones crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed is finding life impossible. Though hes recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues and despite his relationship with the highclass Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces dayindayout become unbearable. Chester Himess shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel. A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposs of what it is like to be black in America LA Times | Chester Himes If He Hollers, Let Him Go Paperback Book