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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Other Authors: West, Margaret Genevieve (Editor), Jones, Tayari (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
FICTION > African American > Women.
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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.
Physical Description:xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780062915795
0062915797