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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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2020

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Format:	Book
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.
Published:	New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Description:	xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:	African Americans -- Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. Special collections -- Equity Resource Center.
Other Author:	West, Margaret Genevieve, editor, writer of introduction. Jones, Tayari, writer of foreword.
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.
Genre:	Short stories. Domestic fiction.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250).
ISBN:	9780062915795 0062915797
Available Copies:	9 (of 11)
No. of Requests:	0
Call number:	F HUR

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