Published in 1952 as "Cast the First Stone", this is Chester Himes's first autobiographical novel. It is a sardonic tale of an African-American's debasement and transfiguration in an American penitentiary.

Published in 1952 as "Cast the First Stone", this is Chester Himes's first autobiographical novel. It is a sardonic tale of an African-American's debasement and transfiguration in an American penitentiary.