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by: Donald Goines
Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change.
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780870679483
ISBN: 0870679481
Label: Holloway House Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Holloway House Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: May 31, 2007
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 208032
Studio: Holloway House Publishing Company
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Book Description:
Goines' classic novel of prison life, it has been called 'one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built into the system.' This is the story of Chester Himes, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more than fresh meat.
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Rating:  - White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
This book seems so real w/all the things that have happened in America and how so much of it is still going on after all these years. I loved it!!!!!!!!
Rating: - real story
I really like this book it seemed like a true life story. I like all Donald Goines books it stories all seem realistic like he just talking about himself.
Rating:  - A page turner!!
This is the 5th book I have read by Mr. Goines. While this is not my favorite(Whoreson), this is still an excellent read. I was able to complete the book in 1 day! So often televsion shows and books sugar-coat prison life, this book is so real it makes you believe you are actually serving time with the others. Donald Goines has a way of dragging the reader into each book. It's sad that his collection only has 14 books. I must say he and Zane are neck and neck in the race of becmoing my favorite ... Read More
Rating: - A real-life look inside the judicial system
In this story, like his others, Donald Goines succeeded in painting a clear, vivid, and lively picture of life behind bars from the black man's point of view during that time. If you really take in the message Goines gets across, you'll see it's much more than a man complaining about this, that, the man not giving him a break, etc. Chester (the main character) was fully aware of his crimes and knew he would be punished. The severity, however, is what got to him, and really set the story in motion. The ... Read More
Rating:  - His own worst enemy
Chester Himes, the main character in this book (based on a real life author who wrote about serving time), is caught with a concealed weapon and is sent to jail. While the author goes to great lengths to point out the racial injustice in the penal system the main problem is this man's own behavior. Actually this book shows that crime doesn't pay. In a sense the main character got what he deserved, he killed his wife and got away with it but wound up spending the rest of his life in jail anyway.
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