Cotton Comes to Harlem (Hardcover)

from clfisha

Himes's novel is hard hitting, edgy and vibrant tale of two black detectives trying to keep the peace in crime ridden, poverty stricken Harlem. They are asked to swallow their pride and baby-sit a ex-con preacher from his old gang, but first they have to find him.. Precursor to Walter Mosley's bl...

from mstrust

Reverend O' Malley arrives in Harlem, quickly builds his own congregation, and soon organizes a Back-To-Africa campaign. For $1000 a family from Harlem will be transported to Africa and given land to start a new life, but at the final rally, when the Reverend and his staff have collected $87,000 ...

from KurtWombat

With the creation of his big city black detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Chester Himes achieved something singular and grand. Hard boiled genre fiction was nothing new in the 1950's, but populating a landscape with sharply detailed black characters was new and still reads fres...

from KurtWombat

With the creation of his big city black detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Chester Himes achieved something singular and grand. Hard boiled genre fiction was nothing new in the 1950's, but populating a landscape with sharply detailed black characters was new and still reads fres...