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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick Cover Image CD Audiobook CD Audiobook

Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; edited with an introduction by Genevieve West.

Hurston, Zora Neale, (author.). Ellis, Aunjanue, (narrator.). Jones, Tayari, (writer of foreword.). West, Margaret Genevieve, (editor,, writer of introduction.).

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781094105956
  • ISBN: 1094105953
  • ISBN: 9781094105963
  • ISBN: 1094105961
  • Physical Description: 7 audio discs (approximately 9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : HarperAudio, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Title from container.
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:
Performed by Aunjanue Ellis.
Summary, etc.:
A collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives.

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Subject: African Americans > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
FICTION / African American / Historical.
FICTION / African American / Women.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.
FICTION / African American / General.
African Americans.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Fiction.
Short stories.
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Library System: Library Branch Name
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Conyers-Rockdale Library System:
      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library 		CDBK FICTION HURSTON
Send SMS Text		 310150029978903 AUDIOBOOKS Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Griffin-Spalding County Library 		AUDIO CD HURSTON
Send SMS Text		 31022009439511 ADULT Available
Live Oak Public Libraries:
      Southwest Chatham Library 		F HURS
Send SMS Text		 21008000075489 AUDIOBOOKS Available

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