The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century) - Softcover

Hughes, Langston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809015498 ISBN 13: 9780809015498

Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1993

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"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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Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hill and Wang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809015498
• ISBN 13: 9780809015498
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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