Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, ‘written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger’ (Observer) Robert ‘Bob’ Jones – crew leader, shipyar

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a stead

The Writings of Chester Himes are colored by a fascinating blend of hatred and tenderness, of hard-boiled realism and generous idealism. His life was complex, h

"There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today's United States." --H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation