Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by:
Valerie Boyd (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781451612967 (1451612966)
Publish date: July 13th 2010
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Culture,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
Folklore
This is a very good biography, as far as I can tell, and a good resource, if you happen to teach anything by Zora Neale Hurston. While it took me a long time (in months, not pages) to get used to Boyd's style of narration (somehow it felt a little artificial, or a little too dreamy - I put it aside...
Like other reviewers, I found this book impossible to put down. Boyd's biography of Zora Neale Hurston beautifully represents Hurston in all her complexity: novelist, playwright, anthropologist, folklorist, raconteur, individualist. Hurston emerges as an flawed, deeply gifted, experienced woman who ...
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