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NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER IBD

MARTINO FINE BOOKS
06 / 2020
9781684224777
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2020 Reprint of the 1930 Edition. áHughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy&rsquo,s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town. When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family&mdash,his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper for a wealthy white family, his irresponsible father, Jimboy, who plays the guitar and travels the country in search of employment, his strong-willed grandmother Hager, who clings to her faith, his Aunt Tempy, who marries a rich man, and his Aunt Harriet, who struggles to make it as a blues singer&mdash,Hughes gives the longings and lineaments of black life in the early twentieth century an important place in the history of racially divided America.

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