Dust Tracks on a Road: The Restored Text Established by the Library of America (THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT PERENNIAL BESTSELLERS SERIES) - Hardcover

Hurston, Zora Neale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783883242 ISBN 13: 9780783883243

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her childhood and successful career

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From the Back Cover:

First published in 1942 at the heightof her popularity, Dust Tracks ona Road is Zora Neale Hurston’scandid, funny, bold, andpoignant autobiography, animaginative and exuberantaccount of her rise from childhood povertyin the rural South to a prominent placeamong the leading artists and intellectualsof the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling asher acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personalliterary self-portrait offers a revealing, oftenaudacious glimpse into the life—publicand private—of an extraordinary artist,anthropologist, chronicler, and champion ofthe Black experience in America. Full of thewit and wisdom of a proud, spirited womanwho started off low and climbed high, DustTracks on a Road is a rare treasure from oneof literature’s most cherished voices.

About the Author:

Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was deemed "one of the greatest writers of our time" by Toni Morrison. With the publication of Lies and Other Tall Tales, The Skull Talks Back, and What's the Hurry, Fox? new generations will be introduced to Hurston's legacy. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891, and died in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0783883242
• ISBN 13: 9780783883243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440