The End of a Primitive
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Book Overview
Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmare to dirty, fitful real life in a Harlem slum. Kriss wakes up alone divorced, disillusioned, in her plush Manhattan apartment. They have nothing in common. Just one amazing, passionate weekend in Chicago and a desire to meet again.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393315401
ISBN13:9780393315400
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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An Interracial "Lost Weekend"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Himes' French publishers called this book "sadism and buffoonery", but it's much more than that, a meditation on the manners, mores, and racism of '50's America. The Old School editors have once again done a bang-up job, restoring the text to Himes' original, not the whitewashed version published as "The Primitive" in 1955. Check it out!
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