Primitive

By Chester Himes

Book Overview

Two lives spiral into a fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings once shared a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 045101264X
• ISBN13: 9780451012647
• Release Date: December 1971
• Publisher: Signet
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

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!