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Title: Run Man Run by Chester B. Himes ISBN: 0-7867-0209-5 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Tough look at racism
Comment: Here's a tough crime novel by Chester Himes without Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones that takes an uncompromising look at American racism in New York City. Though published in 1966, it has a strong '50s feel that comes through in the language and the cultural references both.
Himes' dialogue and language can be occasionally stilted, but there are chase scenes here that will make you sit up and take notice, and the focus on black-white relations is especially good. It's the story of a white cop who accidentally on purpose shoots to death two black 'porters' (workers who unload trucks for a restaurant) and then goes after a third, Jimmy, who manages to survive the cop's onslaught.
The depiction of the cop as sometimes conflicted by his actions is well done and his liaison with Jimmy's black girlfriend is strong stuff indeed. There's a somewhat uneasy mix here, though, of academic and street thinking. Jimmy is studying at Columbia University and shows it in his speech, but when other characters speak, it sometimes sounds like they're struggling to catch up to Jimmy's psychology and often it doesn't feel right.
Nevertheless, what makes this compelling is, as mentioned, the focus on race relations and racism, the chase scenes, and the cop's wacked psychology.
An interesting read.
Rating: 3
Summary: A suspense-filled chase through 1950's Harlem.
Comment: A murderous racist cop trying to cover up his
drunken mistakes and a black truck driver who's
the only surviving witness have a suspense-filled
chase through Harlem. Not always believable, but
always thrilling. A good introduction to the hard-
boiled fiction of Chester Himes, and a piercing
look into the sources of racism.
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Title: The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes ISBN: 0679720391 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Heat's On by Chester Himes ISBN: 0394759974 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester B. Himes ISBN: 039331829X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes ISBN: 0394759982 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes ISBN: 0394759990 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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