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chillcox15's review against another edition
5.0
Chester Himes's depressed dossier of the deadlock of racism and race relations, centered around the seemingly open-and-shut case of four black men that are accused of raping and murdering a white woman in a Paris hotel. Himes maintains a remarkable, upsetting clarity about the emotional and sexual lives of these characters, as brutally honest now as it must have been in the 1950s. The dispassionate formal construction of this brief novel works ingeniously.
gwenhwyfar82's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
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