{"product_id":"chester-himes-a-life","title":"Chester Himes: A Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eChester Himes: A Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJames Sallis\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802713629\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWalker Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eChester Himes's novels and memoirs represent one of the most important bodies of work by any American writer, but he is best known for The Harlem Cycle, the crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. His writing made him a major figure in Europe, but it is only recently that his talents have been acknowledged in the country that spurned him for most of his life, though his work is recognized as being on a par with that of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this major literary biography, acclaimed poet, critic, and novelist James Sallis explores Himes's life as no writer has attempted before. Combining the public facts with fresh interviews with the people who knew him best, including his second wife, Lesley, Sallis casts light onto the contradictions, self-interrogations, and misdirections that make Himes such an enigmatic and elusive subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChester Himes: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive study not only of the life of a major African-American man of letters, but of his writing and its relationship to the man himself, drawing a remarkable, deeply affecting portrait of a too often misunderstood and neglected writer. This is a work of high scholarship and of penetrating and passionate insight, a rare conjoining of two fine writers-and as much a work of literature as any of their novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Walker Books","offers":[{"title":"Chester Himes: A Life | James Sallis | Hardcover | 9780802713629 | Used: Like New | Biography 1569872","offer_id":50596322410754,"sku":"1569872","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/711EsbNifmL.jpg?v=1791122823","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/chester-himes-a-life","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}