num_pages: 351
description: Himes writes of black ghetto life and of his personal struggle with repressive American ways.
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: Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, African American
ratings_count: 73
publisher: Paragon House