![]() ![]() At the center of the action is Jimmy Monroe, a young man burning with ''a blue, double-edged hatred'' of family, society and self, bludgeoned by ''bleeding, ''Yesterday Will Make You Cry'' is Himes's novel as he first wrote it, a stark depiction of Played down its account of his main character's family background and boiled its language toward pulp slickness. On the advice of a series of editors, Chester Himes shifted his narrative's third-person voice to the first person, The novel's original title isn't the only thing that has been restored. Ased on its author's seven-year stint in a state penitentiary and revised over 16 years, the novel ''Cast the First Stone'' is now being reissued,Ĥ5 years after its first publication. ![]()
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