| Their Eyes Were Watching God Contributor(s): Hurston, Zora Neale (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061120065 ISBN-13: 9780061120060 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person-- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 890 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.52 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1930's |
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| Quiz #: 19797 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years--due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist--Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hurston, Zora Neale: - Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: "Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South."
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