Not Without Laughter Author:Langston Hughes This revolutionary manifesto preceded by four years Langsont Hughes's long-awaited first novel, his poignant story of a black boy growing to manhood in a small Kansas town in the 1930's. "Not Without Laughter" is neither the melodrama of Harlem's cabarets not the sentimentality of southern cotton fields, but sensitive perception of simple people... more » meeting as best they can the problems of a complex and destructive environment.« less