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Blindman With a Pistol

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Zusatztext “A sensual! surreal! cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe. . . . A raw but bracing locale . . . bursting with life and sadness! joyously bitter as well as unabashedly sensual.”      — Los Angeles Times “One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.” —Walter Mosley “Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman.” —Henry Louis Gates! Jr. “Their deft mixture of race relations and police-work are as entertaining as sociology as they are as mysteries.” — The Boston Globe Informationen zum Autor Chester Himes Klappentext At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent! Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. New York is sweltering in the summer heat! and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones! at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying! as always! to keep some kind of peace-their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence-Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings! beatings! and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart. Zusammenfassung At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” — Los Angeles Times New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace—their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence—Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart....

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Authors Chester Himes, Chester B. Himes
Publisher Vintage USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.12.1989
 
EAN 9780394759982
ISBN 978-0-394-75998-2
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 135 mm x 205 mm x 14 mm
Series Harlem Detectives Series
Harlem Detectives
Harlem Detectives Series
Harlem Detectives
Subject Fiction > Suspense

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