Rage in Harlem
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Publish date: 12/01/1989
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" A Rage in Harlem is broadly comic from the get-go, lulling the reader into a state of mirthful ease that makes Himes's sneaky expos of white prejudice and Black suffering all the more shocking." --Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Candy House "Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles." -- Newsweek "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius." --Walter Mosley "Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder." --John Edgar Wideman "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." -- The New York Times
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