Writing Absurdity
Adam Shatz: Chester Himes, 26 April 2018
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
by Lawrence P. Jackson.
Norton, 606 pp., £25, July 2017,978 0 393 06389 9 Show More
by Lawrence P. Jackson.
Norton, 606 pp., £25, July 2017,
“... him to Jean Lucinda Johnson, a precocious 16-year-old whose ‘skin was the warm reddish brown of a perfectly roasted turkey breast the moment it comes from the oven’. She would become his first wife. Himes quit college at 17, and began to pack a .44 calibre Colt. ‘It was much later in life that I came to understand I simply hadn’t accepted my ... ”