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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393315401
• ISBN13: 9780393315400
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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!