The big sea

<p><em>The Big Sea</em> (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes’s life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.</p> The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes's life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

First sentence: Melodramatic maybe, it seems to me now.

Year

1940

Language

English

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Editions

10

Pages

288

ISBN

9780826214102

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