num_pages: 360
description: Offers a look at the author's early life in the Black ghetto and his later literary success
language: English
title: The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years, the Autobiography of Chester Himes
titlecomplete: The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years, the Autobiography of Chester Himes
genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, African American
ratings_count: 73
publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press