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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick [electronic resource]

Zora Neale Hurston2020
eAudioBook
From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison)-the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon -a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance. With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston-he sole black student at Barnard College, New York-was living in the city, '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 recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first ...
Author:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins UK, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (245 MB, 08:57:22 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Aunjanue Ellis
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780008374730
Language:
English
BRN:
437593
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