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The Big Sea: An Autobiography

The Big Sea: An Autobiography

Hughes, Langston
Rampersad, Arnold

Paperback

Series: American Century

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0809015498
ISBN13: 9780809015498
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Aug 1 1993
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

This book is the chronicle of a bright and lively artistic ear that brought the African-American people full into the twentieth century. It is a wonderful book! --Amiri Baraka

In his incisive introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic, Arnold Rampersad writes: This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain.

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

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