A Case of Rape: A Novel - Couverture souple

Himes, Chester

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593686748 ISBN 13 : 9780593686744

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about a tragic death and a wrongful conviction

Spare and powerful, A Case of Rape chronicles a tragic miscarriage of justice. Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock Brissard, a white woman, has died in Paris under mysterious circumstances. She had overdosed on an aphrodisiac, and there was evidence she had been sexually assaulted. A French couple witnessed four black men attempting to push her out a window before she died. The trial that followed was summary, and its verdict convicting the four men of rape was practically a foregone conclusion. But was it true? A riveting mystery but also a mordant critique of racism and sexism, and featuring an introduction by Calvin C. Hernton, A Case of Rape is the fablelike story of doomed love and justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chester Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 to 1936. From his first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), Himes dealt with the social and psychological repercussions of being black in a white-dominated society. Beginning in 1953, Himes moved to Europe, where he met and was strongly influenced by Richard Wright. It was in France that he began his best-known series of crime novels—including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)—featuring two Harlem policemen. As with Himes's earlier work, the series is characterized by violence and grisly, sardonic humor. He died in Spain in 1984.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593686748
• ISBN 13: 9780593686744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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