All Shot Up

Name: All Shot Up
Price: 8.49 EUR
Author: Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780141967745

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Chester Himes

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Paru le : 05/05/2011

'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem.... > Lire la suite

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'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma - and a lot of money missing. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the ones who have to piece it all together.
All Shot Up is chaotic, bloody - and completely unforgettable. Chester Himes wrote detective fiction darker, dirtier and more extreme than anyone else dared.

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Date de parution : 05/05/2011
Editeur : PENGUIN
Collection : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN : 978-0-14-196774-5
EAN : 9780141967745
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 208 pages

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- Pages : 208
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Chester Himes

Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier.
In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.