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.
- ISBN10 039331829X
- ISBN13 9780393318296
- Publish Date 28 January 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English