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Magical Tome

Cover of Cast The First Stone
First published
1973
Publisher
The Chatham Bookseller
Pages
346 pages
ISBN
0911860312

Cast The First Stone

The outer archives are busy

by Chester Himes

About this book

**From Kirkus Reviews:** Jim Monroe, covers his first five years of a twenty year sentence in a record of the days spent in ball and poker games, in attempts to foil the guards, and to fight down the impulse toward homosexuality which- for Jim- has a sobering, sullying aftertaste. It is the innocent friendship with Dido, young, unsteady, dependent and devoted, which costs Jim his commutation after a sex perversion charge is brought against them- but Dido repays Jim's loyalty with his suicide through which he frees Jim for the world beyond... The anger here- and the compassion- gives this its impetus which may well he lost in the bluster of a raw vernacular. Caution.

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