# The Big Sea

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- Book: [The Big Sea](https://www.bookquiver.com/langston-hughes/the-big-sea) ([The Big Sea.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/langston-hughes/the-big-sea.md))
- Authors: [Langston Hughes](https://www.bookquiver.com/langston-hughes), [Arnold Rampersad](https://www.bookquiver.com/arnold-rampersad), [Dominic Hoffman](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-hoffman)
- Publisher: random_house_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-03-0793-947-0
- Published: 2011-07-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and...