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Author:

Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Title:

Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Amistadan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction.

Other Authors:

West, Margaret Genevieve, writer of introduction. writer of introduction.
Jones, Tayari, writer of foreword.
Hurston, Zora Neale. John Redding goes to sea.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Conversion of Sam.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Bit of our Harlem.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Drenched in light.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Short stories. Selections.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Magnolia flower.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Black death.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Bone of contention.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Muttsy.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Sweat.

Other Titles:

Short stories. Selections

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250).

Contents:

John Redding goes to sea -- The conversion of Sam -- A bit of our Harlem -- Drenched in light -- Spunk -- Magnolia flower -- Black death -- The bone of contention -- Muttsy -- Sweat -- Under the bridge -- 'Possum or pig? -- The Eatonville anthology -- Book of Harlem -- The book of Harlem -- The back room -- Monkey junk -- The country in the woman -- The gilded six-bits -- She rock -- The fire and the cloud.

Summary:

In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.

ISBN:

0062915797
9780062915795

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1134612047

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