Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston
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Dust Tracks on a Road
An Autobiography

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/11/2016


Synopsis

“Warm, witty, imaginative.... This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerDust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature’s most compelling and influential authors. Hurston’s powerful novels of the South—including Jonah’s Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God—continue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurston’s personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the book’s original publication.

About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 07, 2021

I fell in love with Zora Neale Hurston - anthropologist, writer, filmmaker, heretic - in the autumn of 2021. As an author and public speaker, Zora was not above taking our religious institutions to task. “You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity… It s......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on July 30, 2022

"I had been lonely; I had been bare and bony of comfort and love... Now, I was to take up my pilgrim's stick and go outside again. Maybe it would be different now...I took a firm grip on the only weapon I had- hope, and set my feet. Maybe everything would be all right from now on. Maybe. I put on my......more

Goodreads review by Alice on June 13, 2020

Really interesting and I love the way this is written!......more