The Big Sea: An Autobiography

by Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad Narrated by Dominic Hoffman

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

Booknews

**** Reprint of the Hill & Wang edition of 1964 (first edition 1940), with a new introduction by Arnold Rampersad. The work is cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From the Publisher

Langston Hughes is the Jazz Poet! The constant communicator of Blues. He is the singer, philosopher, the folk and urban lyricist. 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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169326666
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	07/26/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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