Chester Himes : a life /
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| Author / Creator: | Sallis, James, 1944- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Walker & Co., 2001. |
| Description: | xiv, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4451576 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.. Unnatural Histories
- 2.. 59623
- 3.. "One Way to Be a Nigger"
- 4.. The Things a Writing Man Will Do
- 5.. Round Us Bark the Mad and Hungry Dogs
- 6.. "I'm Still Here"
- 7.. A Street He Could Understand
- 8.. Going Too Far and Too Far Gone
- 9.. "I Don't Have That Much Imagination"
- 10.. Literature Will Not Save You
- 11.. European Experience
- 12.. Story-Shaped Life
- 13.. Doubt, Passion, the Madness of Art
- 14.. Beautiful White Ruins of America
- 15.. A Serious Savage
- 16.. A New Intelligence
- 17.. Gone So Long
- 18.. Black Ruins of My Life
- 19.. The Bad Mother
- 20.. "I Never Found a Place I Fit"
- Selected Bibliography
- Works by Chester Himes
- Notes
- Index
