Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick : : Stories From the Harlem Renaissance
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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.
Contents: John Redding goes to sea. -- Conversion of Sam. -- Bit of our Harlem. -- Drenched in light. -- Short stories. -- Magnolia flower. -- Black death. -- Bone of contention. -- Muttsy. -- Sweat.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062915795
0062915797
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
West, Genevieve,
Hurston, Zora Neale.
SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction.