Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance
✍ Scribed by Zora Neale Hurston
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;Amistad
- Year
- 2019;2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062915797
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison) --the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern...