The Nile on eBay\n\n  FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE\n\n \n\nThe Third Generation\nby\nChester Himes\n\n\""Originally published in hardcover by The World Publishing Company in 1954. The foreword originally published in hardcover by Thunder's Mouth Press in 1989\""--Title page verso.\n\nFORMAT\nPaperback\nCONDITION\nBrand New\n\nPublisher Description\nFrom the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America\n\nLillian Taylor has three sons, a comfortable house, and a well-liked husband who teaches at a local college. But her contempt for her family's dark complexion infects this bright world until it begins to come undone. As one troubling incident leads to another, her husband is pushed to an ever more precarious existence and her best-loved son, Charles, sinks into a life of vice in the perilous borderland between blac;