Dust Tracks on a Road

<p><b>With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD</b><br> <br> <b>'Warm, witty, imaginative . . . A rich and winning book' <i>NEW YORKER</i><br></b><br> <b>'Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU</b><br> <br> <b>'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON</b><br> <br> First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, <i>Dust Tracks on a Road</i> 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.<br> <br> 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>'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'.</i></p>