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If He Hollers Let Him Go (Himes, Chester)
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If He Hollers Let Him Go (Himes, Chester) Paperback - 2002

by Himes, Chester

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  • Title If He Hollers Let Him Go (Himes, Chester)
  • Author Himes, Chester
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, NY:
  • Date 2002-09-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ00MC3J_ns
  • ISBN 9781560254454 / 1560254459
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.58 x 0.62 in (21.08 x 14.17 x 1.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, African American men
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002727758
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

If He Hollers Let Him Go is the first novel by Chester Himes, published in 1945. It is about an African American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II. A 1968 film adaptation with Raymond St. Jacques, Barbara McNair, Kevin McCarthy, and Arthur O'Connell bore little resemblance to the book. The story spans four days in the life of Bob Jones, a newcomer to L.A. from Ohio, who has some college education and works as a crew leader in a naval shipyard. It is considered a protest novel, in the same vein as Richard Wright's book Native Son, published 5 years earlier. 

First Edition Identification

The first edition of If He Hollers, Let Him Go was published by Doubleday Douran in 1945.


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Citations

  • Ebony, 11/01/2005, Page 42

About the author

Chester Himes was the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, and two films. Himes, who began writing while serving a prison term for jewel theft in the early 1940s, is best known for his angry social criticism in books like If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade and for his memorable Harlem detective novels.