With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD
'Zora Neale Hurston was a knockout in her life, a wonderful writer and a fabulous person. Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU
First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life - public and private - of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler and champion of the black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed high: 'I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and a sword in my hands.'
'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON
- ISBN10 025201149X
- ISBN13 9780252011498
- Publish Date 1 January 1984
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 348
- Language English