Not Without Laughter: Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

Book Overview

Hughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy'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-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-Hughes gives the longings and lineaments of black life in the early twentieth century an important place in the history of racially divided America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639239995
• ISBN13: 9781639239993
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Lushena Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"