{"product_id":"9780809015498","title":"The Big Sea: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLangston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the \"Harlem Renaissance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, an American classic: \"This is American writing at its best—simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016572387568,"sku":"9780809015498","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809015498_p0.jpg?v=1763813403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809015498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}