Spunk: The Selected Stories
Sweet and horrific stories, fairy tales, and haunters. I read Hurston because her voice is so clear, and foreign, but the way she writes just wraps me up and I can see every character, even smell the world they live in, like I'm crouching behind a tree in their yards.
Sweet and horrific stories, fairy tales, and haunters. I read Hurston because her voice is so clear, and foreign, but the way she writes just wraps me up and I can see every character, even smell the world they live in, like I'm crouching behind a tree in their yards.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781569247433 (1569247439)
Publish date: August 1st 1997
Publisher: Marlowe & Co
Pages no: 106
Edition language: English
I think this collection of eight short stories is a great introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. I loved the passion in these stories, the rich dialogue between the characters, and Hurston’s humour. In one story she writes a story (‘Isis’) about a little girl, who I suspect to be Hurston herself, overc...