# The Third Generation

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- Book: [The Third Generation](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-third-generation) ([The Third Generation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-third-generation.md))
- Authors: [Chester Himes](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-9368-668-3
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2025-03-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From 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...