The Big Sea
Introduction by 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...
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Introduction by 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."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780809015498 (0809015498)
Publish date: August 1st 1993
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
College,
Race
Read this in my Harlem Renaissance course in college, and it still sticks with me (umpteen years later). The life story of one of my favorite poets.
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