If He Hollers Let Him Go

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ISBN: 9780241692424
Title: If He Hollers Let Him Go
Author: HIMES CHESTER

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 he has recently been promoted to supervisor at the Los Angeles shipyard where he works, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by white woman Madge. Over the course of four fraught days, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces in day-to-day interactions mounts. A masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism and a monumental classic in the protest novel tradition, this 1945 novel is as shattering and trenchant today as it was on first publication.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28/11/2024
Pages: 256
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