The Sweet Flypaper of Life

Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1984. Howard University Press reprint edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 112pp. Quarto [27 cm] Brown cloth over boards. In the dust jacket, with sunning to the spine, and two short closed tears at the head of the spine (backed with tape). A description of life in Harlem as seen through the eyes of a grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. The story reveals the reality of many people's lives in Harlem, and is accompanied by the photographs of Roy DeCarava. The publisher states, "The photographs of Roy DeCarava and the text by Langston Hughes are wed in a most perfect union to tell the story of ordinary people who work and play, love and hate, marry and divorce, raise children and let them go, and who cope extraordinarily.