The End of a Primitive

by Chester Himes

Book Overview

Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series

Years ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had a passionate weekend in Chicago, but they haven't seen each other since. Jesse's career as a novelist has been trending downward, and much of his time is spent drinking and brooding in his Harlem tenement. Kriss is divorced and infertile,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593686705
• ISBN13: 9780593686706
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Length: 224 Pages

Customer Reviews

An Interracial "Lost Weekend"

Himes' French publishers called this book "sadism and buffoonery", but it's much more than that, a meditation on the manners, mores, and racism of '50's America. The Old School editors have once again done a bang-up job, restoring the text to Himes' original, not the whitewashed version published as "The Primitive" in 1955. Check it out!