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Bibliographic Information
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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
First edition.
- Author
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Hurston, Zora Neale.
- Publisher:
- Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
- Pub date:
- [2020]
- Pages:
- xliii, 252 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9780062915795
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult fiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
First edition.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
First edition.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
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Personal Author:
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Hurston, Zora Neale.
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[Short stories. Selections]
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Title:
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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.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents:
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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.
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Summary:
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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.
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Subject term:
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African Americans--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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African Americans--Fiction.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction. sears
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West, Margaret Genevieve,
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Jones, Tayari,
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Hurston, Zora Neale. John Redding goes to sea.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Conversion of Sam.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Bit of our Harlem.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Drenched in light.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Short stories. Selections.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Magnolia flower.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Black death.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Bone of contention.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Muttsy.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Sweat.