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Yesterday Will Make You Cry
by Chester Himes
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The autobiographical novel, which Chester Himes completed in 1937, recounts the trials of a young man named Jimmy Monroe as he makes his way through the American prison system. The book went unpublished until 1952, when it was released in a heavily edited version under the title "Cast the First Stone". "Yesterday Will Make You Cry" is the complete and unexpurgated version of the novel as Himes intended it to be read.
Available editions of Yesterday Will Make You Cry
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9780393045772,
Hardcover,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1998
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9780393318296,
Paperback,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1999
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Publisher Notes
First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chester Himes's first, most powerful, and autobiographical novel. This Old School Books edition presents it for the first time precisely as Himes wrote it, a sardonic masterpiece of debasement and transfiguration in an American penitentiary and one of his most enduring literary achievements.
Media Reviews
"Jimmy's sexual confusion, and his moment of 'blackness' during the fire, suggest the course of his own redemption, which finds ultimate expression in his first attempts as a writer. Himes captures it all in his inimitable, far from pulpy, prose. A revelation for Himes fans."
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