Dust Tracks on a Road
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780252011498 (025201149X)
Publish date: January 1st 1984
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Race
Zora Neale Hurston approaches this moving memoir like a master storyteller, with wonderfully lyrical prose that reminded me a lot of her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Loved it.
"There is something wonderful to behold just ahead. Let's go see what it is." - Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a RoadI was a bit apprehensive about reading this book as I’ve read about the tragedies Zora Neale Hurston experienced in her life. This, however, turned out to be one of the most marve...
Will add more quotes when I reread the book. Eventually. For now, here are quotes from Written By Herself.I think this book is the best of all Hurston's works that I've read, and shows her strengths as a writer and storyteller.p. 36 "In the classroom I got along splendidly. The only difficulty was ...
12 years ago
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