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Publisher | Profile Books |
Year | 02/12/2010 |
Version | eBook: Reflowable eTextbook (ePub) |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9781847653116 |
Categories | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear.
Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945.
If He Hollers Let Him Go