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Not Without Laughter

by Langston Hughes
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Rediscover the great Harlem Renaissance poet’s first and only novel—an elegiac, elegantly realized coming-of-age tale about an African American family set in the Midwest at the dawn of World War I
Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author’s own recollections of youth and early manhood. “I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West,” he later explained of his award-winning debut, and it is as a fond and richly anecdotal family and community portrait that his book comes to life.
 
Following Sandy Rogers from his boyhood in rural Kansas to his arrival in Chicago as a young man, and set against a backdrop of poverty, segregation, and the onset of World War I, it introduces us to a host of vividly realized characters along the way: Sandy’s pious, redoubtable grandmother Hager, who holds the generations together; his itinerant father Jimboy with his guitar; mother Annjee, who keeps house for wealthy whites; blues-singing Aunt Harriet; proper, social-climbing Aunt Tempy; and many more.
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Publisher: Library of America

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 15, 2018

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781598535969
  • File size: 523 KB
  • Release date: May 15, 2018

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781598535969
  • File size: 523 KB
  • Release date: May 15, 2018

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1010
Text Difficulty:6-8

Rediscover the great Harlem Renaissance poet’s first and only novel—an elegiac, elegantly realized coming-of-age tale about an African American family set in the Midwest at the dawn of World War I
Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author’s own recollections of youth and early manhood. “I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West,” he later explained of his award-winning debut, and it is as a fond and richly anecdotal family and community portrait that his book comes to life.
 
Following Sandy Rogers from his boyhood in rural Kansas to his arrival in Chicago as a young man, and set against a backdrop of poverty, segregation, and the onset of World War I, it introduces us to a host of vividly realized characters along the way: Sandy’s pious, redoubtable grandmother Hager, who holds the generations together; his itinerant father Jimboy with his guitar; mother Annjee, who keeps house for wealthy whites; blues-singing Aunt Harriet; proper, social-climbing Aunt Tempy; and many more.
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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