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Their Eyes Were Watching God

By Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God is a profoundly soulful novel exploring themes of love and cruelty through the life of a strong black female protagonist. Set in the American South, it tells a compelling love story imbued with wit and deep emotional resonance, showcasing Zora Neale Hurston's unique literary voice.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic African-American literature, Southern fiction, and stories with powerful, complex female leads.

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Hurston's most highly acclaimed novel returns in a beautiful new edition, in time to celebrate Black History Month.

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"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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780061470370

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Collins

Edition: Large type / large print edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 320

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Classic Fiction Classic General Fiction Fiction General Fiction Large type / Large Print Editions Literary Fiction Zora Neale Hurston

About the Author

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.

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