Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Produktbeschreibung

Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

Produktdetails

• VMC
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 134mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781844085286
• ISBN-10: 1844085287
• Artikelnr.: 25461470

Autorenporträt

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 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 also grew up in Alabama.

Rezensionen

"[A] brilliant novel about a woman's search for her authentic self and for real love." - Edwidge Danticat
"Their Eyes Were Watching God belongs in the same category with [the works of] William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, that of enduring American literature." - Saturday Review
"This is 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. Hurston is a lyrical writer, and lyricism is not usually my cup of tea, but there are talents that go beyond genre and taste. Her greatest claim over me is that she never was ashamed of the novel as a form-she believed in the transformative power of storytelling, and she took risks with sentiment that few contemporary writers are prepared to make." - America Magazine
"This is 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. Hurston...believed in the transformative power of storytelling, and she took risks with sentiment that few contemporary writers are prepared to make." - Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty
"Undoubtedly one of the important American novels." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)