Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The End of a Primitive

The End of a Primitive

Himes, Chester

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0593686705
ISBN13: 9780593686706
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Two lives spiral into a fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series

Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings once shared a passionate weekend in Chicago, but it's been years since they've seen each other. Jesse, a black writer, refuses to pen the inspirational novel his agent wants, and sits in his Harlem tenement as his career plummets accordingly. Kriss, a white divorcée, has found moderate success at her office job, but is disillusioned with life. Often sleeping with black men, she's pilloried for solving the Negro Problem in bed. Each of them lonely and embittered by the racial tensions of McCarthy-era America, they reunite for a whiskey-soaked weekend in 1952, spiraling into a violent, malicious pas de deux that is fated to end in destruction.

2 different editions

Also available

Also from

Himes, Chester

View All

Also in

General Fiction

View All