Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; edited with an introduction by Genevieve West.
Record details
- ISBN: 1094105961
- ISBN: 9781094105956
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : HarperCollins, [2020]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Aunjanue Ellis. |
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Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Short stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | CD A HURSTON 7 CDs
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34598000837156 | Audiobooks - Reading Room | Available | - |
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.