Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick, stories from the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West
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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick, stories from the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250)
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1134612047
Responsibility statement
Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West
Sub title
stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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
Target audience
adult
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Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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- A bit of our Harlem
- The bone of contention
- The conversion of Sam
- 'Possum or pig?
- Sweat
- Spunk
- The book of Harlem
- She rock
- Book of Harlem
- The gilded six-bits
- Magnolia flower
- The fire and the cloud
- Drenched in light
- The back room
- John Redding goes to sea
- The country in the woman
- Opossum or pig?
- Black death
- Monkey junk
- The Eatonville anthology
- Under the bridge
- The gilded six bits
- Muttsy
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- A bit of our Harlem
- The bone of contention
- The conversion of Sam
- 'Possum or pig?
- Sweat
- Spunk
- The book of Harlem
- She rock
- Book of Harlem
- The gilded six-bits
- Magnolia flower
- The fire and the cloud
- Drenched in light
- The back room
- John Redding goes to sea
- The country in the woman
- Opossum or pig?
- Black death
- Monkey junk
- The Eatonville anthology
- Under the bridge
- The gilded six bits
- Muttsy
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