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The Big Gold Dream

by Chester Himes
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"Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next." —New York Times
After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously effective African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, Harlem's toughest detective duo, who must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare.

The Big Gold Dream is the explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as an urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem, pitting murderers and prostitutes against corrupt politicians and racist white detectives. Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson attempt to maintain some kind of order—in the neighborhood they have sworn to protect—in a world gone mad around them.
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Publisher: Pegasus Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 17, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9781605986630
  • File size: 808 KB
  • Release date: September 17, 2008

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781605986630
  • File size: 807 KB
  • Release date: September 17, 2008

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Kindle Book
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Fiction Thriller

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English

"Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next." —New York Times
After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously effective African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, Harlem's toughest detective duo, who must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare.

The Big Gold Dream is the explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as an urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem, pitting murderers and prostitutes against corrupt politicians and racist white detectives. Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson attempt to maintain some kind of order—in the neighborhood they have sworn to protect—in a world gone mad around them.
Expand title description text
Fiction Thriller
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pegasus Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 17, 2008

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781605986630
    File size: 808 KB
    Release date: September 17, 2008

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781605986630
    File size: 807 KB
    Release date: September 17, 2008

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English