num_pages: 363
description: “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 A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chester Himes's first, most powerful, and autobiographical novel. This Old School Books edition presents it for the first time precisely as Himes wrote it, a sardonic masterpiece of debasement and transfiguration in an American penitentiary and one of his most enduring literary achievements.
language: English
title: Yesterday Will Make You Cry
titlecomplete: Yesterday Will Make You Cry
genres: Literature, Crime, American, African American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 296
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company