Grave Digger and Coffin Ed

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A Rage in Harlem Publisher's summary

Audie Award Nominee, Fiction, 2013

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Star Wars films), fresh off the success of his uproarious, Audie-nominated performance of the mock children’s book Go the F**k to Sleep, delivers a swaggering, darkly-humored rendering of Chester Himes’ classic first novel.

Himes, described by The Sunday Times as “the greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler”, was no stranger to the world of crime: in his late teens and early 20s, he served seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery, the confession to which was beaten out of him by the police. He delivers the tale of his hopelessly naïve hero suddenly finding himself on the run from a hypocritical and far-from-heroic police force with lurid violence and brutal humor. There is no voice better than Mr. Jackson’s to narrate this hardboiled story of love and crime, set in a richly imagined, mid-20th-century Harlem.

©1957 Chester Himes (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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  • Book 1

    • A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
    • By: Chester Himes
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-11
    • Language: English
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    • A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
    • By: Chester Himes
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    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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    • A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
    • By: Chester Himes
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    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-11
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    • Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 8
    • By: Chester Himes
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-24
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