The Big Sea, First Edition, Second Printing, Signed
Langston Hughes
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Add to basketSold by Dust Jacket Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Add to basketThe Big Sea (1940) First Edition, Second Printing Presentation Copy Signed and Inscribed by Langston Hughes To Walter and Marie Gray Sincerely, Langston Hughes. The Dust Jacket is a Fascimile. The Big Sea is an autobiographical work by Langston Hughes. In it, he tells his experience of being a writer of color in Paris, France, and his experiences living in New York, where he faced injustices surrounding systemic racism. In his time in Paris, Hughes struggled to find a stable income and had to learn to be efficient by taking many odd jobs like working in nightclubs and small writing jobs.Eventually, he began to rise to fame as a writer, Hughes began referencing his past struggles regarding abuse from his father where he was divided between the trauma his father endured versus the damage it did to Hughes. Hughes's autobiography exemplifies the obstacles that many African-American artists faced during the early twentieth century in the United States.[.
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