Description: The Living is Easy by Dorothy West First edition, first printing of a 1948 novel by an African American woman Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition. [iv], 347 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine with a little staining to fore edge, gutter a little rubbed, lacking jacket. A very crisp, clean copy. The uncommon debut novel by a writer generally associated with the Harlem Renaissance for her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as the literary magazine Challenge she published during the Great Depression. In their 2020 reprint of this novel The Feminist Press writes, "Written in elegant and piercing prose, The Living Is Easy is a classic of American literature by a groundbreaking African American woman writer whose work deserves widespread and enduring recognition."
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Author: West, Dorothy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year Printed: 1948
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original/Facsimile: Original