Ebook {Epub PDF} Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes

The stairs became strewn with the bodies of the fallen. Others fell too as they tried senselessly to run over them. The soul sister continued to scream, "BLIND MAN WITH A PISTOL!" The blind man groped about in the dark, panic-stricken, stumbling over the fallen bodies, waving his Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes. Valuable First Edition, hardcover. Binding tight and hinges without wear. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent copy of this rare, collectible work of literature by Chester Himes. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes. ratings, average rating, 87 reviews. Blind Man with a Pistol Quotes Showing of “what i really need is a dead man.”. ― Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol.

Blind Man With A Pistol was the last novel featuring Harlem cops, Gravedigger Jones Coffin Ed that Chester Himes wrote. It went out in Enough time for Himes to have witnessed the USA Vietnam War debacle, the Black Power Movement faltering, the Cold War at sub zero and the Middle East convulsing. Blind Man with a Pistol. A Grave Digger Coffin Ed Novel. By: Chester Himes. Narrated by: Dion Graham. Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 7. Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, Genre Fiction. out of 5 stars. Chester Himes' Blind Man with a Pistol. In the preface to Blind Man, Himes relates a story of a blind man with a pistol that reminded him of "some of our loudmouthed leaders urging our vulnerable soul brothers onto getting themselves killed." He adds further "that all unorganized violence is like a blind man with a pistol.".

Blind Man With a Pistol is a fiction novel by Chester Himes. It is the 8th book in the Harlem Cycle series. Synopsis. It is summertime in the city of Harlem and Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are both trying to keep peace in the city. They pursue two different cases in an attempt to keep the city from tearing itself apart. At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes. Valuable First Edition, hardcover. Binding tight and hinges without wear. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent copy of this rare, collectible work of literature by Chester Himes.