If He Hollers, Let Him Go

Robert ''Bob'' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he has recently been promoted to supervisor at the Los Angeles shipyard where he works, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by white woman Madge. Over the course of four fraught days, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces in day-to-day interactions mounts. A masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism and a monumental classic in the protest novel tradition, this 1945 novel is as shattering and trenchant today as it was on first publication.>

Product details

• Authors: Chester Himes
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9780241692424
• ISBN: 978-0-241-69242-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Los Angeles, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Relating to African American / Black American people, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II