"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."@en
"Prison life in the 1930s featuring a white man incarcerated for robbery. The novel is based on the experience of its black author and deals with violence and male love. This edition is the unpublished original, a sanitized version having been published in 1953 under the title, Cast the First Stone."
"Prison life in the 1930s featuring a white man incarcerated for robbery. The novel is based on the experience of its black author and deals with violence and male love. This edition is the unpublished original, a sanitized version having been published in 1953 under the title, Cast the First Stone."@en
"Hines sort en 1937 de prison, après y avoir purgé sept des vingt ans de sa condamnation pour vol à main armée. Il y découvre l'écriture et commence la rédaction de son premier livre. Publié en 1953, ce roman raconte son expérience de la vie carcérale : racisme, homosexualité, corruption, violence..."