| Title | : | The Big Sea: An Autobiography (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad |
| Release | : | 2011-07-26 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | The Big Sea: An Autobiography (Unabridge | Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad |
| 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." Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain." Cover design by Sara Eisenman. Cover photograph by Roy DeCarava © Sherry Turner DeCarava |
