A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great african-American Writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as cast the first stone, Yesterd...A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great african-American Writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as cast the first stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chester Himes's first, most powerful, and autobiographical novel.