Rene asked
> Forgive me if someone has answered this one (as
may
> be obvious, I'm very
> behind on reading posts):
> For Love of Imabelle was the title of the
original
> US edition (Gold
> Medal). I believe the title was changed to A Rage
in
> Harlem to cash in
> on the film version of that title that came out
in
> the 60''s or 70's.
As Jim pointed out A Rage in Harlem became the new title for
the book a good thirty years before the film came out
(probably simply to let book buyers know it was a black
mystery). Curious thing is that For Love Of Imabelle is not
the original title either. The book was first published in
French as La Reine Des Pommes (The Queen of Apples) but that
Serie Noire edition gave the English title as The
Five-Cornered Square, which was presumably Himes own
preferred name for it.
Oh and BTW was it Mark who enquired about The End Of A
Primitive? Anyway it's a book everyone should read, a
flat-out American masterpiece, and a startlingly modern one
too.
John.
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