
Cast The First Stone
Chester Himes · 1952
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About the book
**From Kirkus Reviews:** Jim Monroe, covers his first five years of a twenty year sentence in a record of the days spent in ball and poker games, in attempts to foil the guards, and to fight down the impulse toward homosexuality which- for Jim- has a sobering, sullying aftertaste. It is the innocent friendship with Dido, young, unsteady, dependent and devoted, which costs Jim his commutation after a sex perversion charge is brought against them- but Dido repays Jim's loyalty with his suicide through which he frees Jim for the world beyond... The anger here- and the compassion- gives this its impetus which may well he lost in the bluster of a raw vernacular. Caution.
Book details
- Year
- 1952
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Chatham Bookseller
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780911860313
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