Not Without Laughter
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Not Without Laughter

A Novel

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eBook - ePub

Not Without Laughter

A Novel

About this book

In an "eye-opening portrait of the artist as a young black man in the Midwest," the Harlem Renaissance poet made his fiction debut with this 1930 novel ( A. Scott Berg, The New York Times Book Review ).

A moving depiction of African American family life, Not Without Laughter is the coming-of-age story of Sandy Rogers as he navigates growing up in a racially divided small town in Kansas. With a mother who works as a housekeeper for a rich white family and a musician father who travels the country in search of work, Sandy's family struggles against poverty and discrimination in a novel that "moves as swiftly as a jazz rhythm" ( The New York Times), rendering an indelible portrait of the Black experience in America in the years leading up to World War I.

"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th century American literature. . . . A powerful interpreter of the American experience." — The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9798337205700
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Chapter I: Storm
  4. Chapter II: Conversation
  5. Chapter III: Jimboy’s Letter
  6. Chapter IV: Thursday Afternoon
  7. Chapter V: Guitar
  8. Chapter VI: Work
  9. Chapter VII: White Folks
  10. Chapter VIII: Dance
  11. Chapter IX: Carnival
  12. Chapter X: Punishment
  13. Chapter XI: School
  14. Chapter XII: Hard Winter
  15. Chapter XIII: Christmas
  16. Chapter XIV: Return
  17. Chapter XV: One by One
  18. Chapter XVI: Nothing but Love
  19. Chapter XVII: Barber-Shop
  20. Chapter XVIII: Children’s Day
  21. Chapter XIX: Ten Dollars and Costs
  22. Chapter XX: Hey, Boy!
  23. Chapter XXI: Note to Harriett
  24. Chapter XXII: Beyond the Jordan
  25. Chapter XXIII: Tempy’s House
  26. Chapter XXIV: A Shelf of Books
  27. Chapter XXV: Pool Hall
  28. Chapter XXVI: The Doors of Life
  29. Chapter XXVII: Beware of Women
  30. Chapter XXVIII: Chicago
  31. Chapter XXIX: Elevator
  32. Chapter XXX: Princess of the Blues
  33. About the Author
  34. Copyright

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