All Mamie Mason ever wanted was to be "the hostess with the mostest" and inspire a lot of inter-racial loving at her famous parties in Harlem. A bawdy Rabelaisian tale of sex, food and gossip.
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A sex farce deemed to be Himes's most daring work of fiction
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I really enjoyed this book. It really made me think. It was also so darned sexy. It mostly dealt with race and sex...Primarily of the interracial variety. I will never forget Mamie Mason the Hostesss With The Mostest and her Harlem Parties geared towards ending the "Negro Problem" of the Sixties. She felt she could end the "Negro Problem" simply by throwing parties and inviting White folks up to Harlem. Even though the book was written long ago the issues that surfaced in the book are sill very much with us today. One day I would like to option this book for a movie....
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AWESOME!,
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This was the most entertaining and shockingly funny books I have every read. It is so outlandish that it is hard to believe, yet it kept me in stitches laughing out loud. I highly recommend this book.
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Himes leaves aside his usuall hard boiled crime novel and turns his hand to a farce. He should stay with the crime novels. I got the point, but the book seemed so dated that it often lost my interest. Himes does a great job of weaving social commentary into his crime novels -- see Rage in Harlem in particular -- and falters a bit when he writes a novel dedicated to social commentary through farce.
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For the most part the American Negroes are descendants in whole or in fractions of African Negroes who were brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere as slaves during the two centuries preceding the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black satin sheath dress, white paramour, colored fellows, colored ladies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mamie Mason, Reverend Riddick, Wallace Wright, Maiti Brown, Patty Pearson, Brown Sugar, Art Wills, Kit Samuels, Bessie Shirley, Professor Samuels, Joe Mason, Lou Reynolds, Big Burley, Eddy Schooley, Masked Ball, Kathy Carter, Jonah Johnson, Fay Corson, Alice Overton, Debbie Wills, Dora Steele, Moe Miller, New York, Panama Paul, Arthur Tucker New!
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For the most part the American Negroes are descendants in whole or in fractions of African Negroes who were brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere as slaves during the two centuries preceding the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black satin sheath dress, white paramour, colored fellows, colored ladies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mamie Mason, Reverend Riddick, Wallace Wright, Maiti Brown, Patty Pearson, Brown Sugar, Art Wills, Kit Samuels, Bessie Shirley, Professor Samuels, Joe Mason, Lou Reynolds, Big Burley, Eddy Schooley, Masked Ball, Kathy Carter, Jonah Johnson, Fay Corson, Alice Overton, Debbie Wills, Dora Steele, Moe Miller, New York, Panama Paul, Arthur Tucker New!
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- Lonely Crusade (Himes, Chester) by Chester Himes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Case of Rape by Chester B. Himes in Front Matter
- A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes in Front Matter
- Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes in Front Matter
- Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes in Front Matter
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