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Roy DeCaravaThe Sweet flypaper of life

Roy DeCarava – The Sweet flypaper of life

Photographs: Roy DeCarava

Text: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

98 pages

Year: 1955

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The Sweet Flypaper of Life describes, in words and pictures, what the authors have seen and known and felt deeply about their people. Life in Harlem may be hard : getting up each morning and going to work, knowing that today will be like yesterday and tomorrow. Yet there are rewards, moments - a man walking in the sun, a woman laughing, couples in the park, the watering of a garden on a window sill, a father's touch a child's glance. "We've had so many books about how bad life  is", Langston Hughes says. "Maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is."

Softcover. First edition, first printing, 1995. Black & white photographs. Well printing. Text in english. Owner's name dated 1955. Faded due to time, some wear on spine otherwise fresh copy. Collectible book.
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