If He Hollers, Let Him Go - Himes Chester

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, ‘written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger’ (Observer)Robert ‘Bob’ Jones – crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed – is finding life impossible. Though he’s recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with... Zobrazit více