Black Misery |
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Author:
| Hughes, Langston |
Illustrator:
| Arouni, |
Introduction by:
| Jackson, Jesse |
As told to:
| O'Meally, Robert G. |
Series title: | The ^AIona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-514298-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.95 |
Book Description:
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Langston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In Black Misery he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. The short but powerful one-sentence captions, along with Arouni's black and white drawings, tell of the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. The mix of hope and dismay that characterized that decade is still real and immediate after 25 years. Black Misery,...
More DescriptionLangston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In Black Misery he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. The short but powerful one-sentence captions, along with Arouni's black and white drawings, tell of the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. The mix of hope and dismay that characterized that decade is still real and immediate after 25 years. Black Misery, first published in 1969, was the last book that Langston Hughes wrote. He died in May 1967, while working on the manuscript.