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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston's now-classic novel about Janie Crawford, the granddaughter of an ex-slave, and her three husbands: Mr. Killicks, Mayor Starks and, finally, Tea Cake--the love of her life. The novel is set in a black community in rural Florida, and the characters speak in dialect--a technique that inspired both anger and praise from other black writers. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, first published in 1937, is a landmark novel of the black experience in America and also--because of Janey's stubborn insistence on her independence--of feminism.

Available editions of Their Eyes Were Watching God

	9780060838676, Paperback, Perennial, 2006 $4.12 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780060838676

	9781417696031, Prebinding, Bt Bound, 2006 None currently available

	9780809590193, Hardcover, Wildside Pr, 1990 None currently available

	9780060916503, Paperback, Harpercollins, 1990 $1.00 (Used, Good) Other copies of 9780060916503

	9780252006869, Paperback, Univ of Illinois Pr, 1978 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780252006869

	9781568496252, Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, 1995 None currently available

	9780837118857, Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group, 1969 $22.56 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780837118857

	9780072434224, Paperback, McGraw-Hill College, 2000 $17.15 (Good) Other copies of 9780072434224

	9780061120060, Paperback, Perennial, 2006 $8.80 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780061120060

	9780821927366, Hardcover, Emc Pub, 2004 None currently available

	9780783818849, Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, 1996 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780783818849

	9781559945004, Audio Cassette, Caedmon Audio Cassette, 1991 $6.45 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9781559945004

	9780060199494, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 2000 $5.48 (Good) Other copies of 9780060199494

	9780060931414, Paperback, Harpercollins, 1998 $1.00 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780060931414

	9780060776534, Compact Disc, Harperaudio, 2004 $25.36 (NEW) Other copies of 9780060776534

Publisher Notes

Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.

Originally published in 1937 and long out of print, the book was reissued in 1975 and nearly three decades later Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a seminal novel in American fiction.

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Media Reviews

"'Their Eyes Were Watching God' brought a heartbeat and breath to all Hurston's years of research. Raising a folk culture to the heights of art, it fulfilled the Harlem Renaissance dream....The paramount ironies, however, are two: the heroine is not quite black, and becomes even less black as the story goes on; and the author offers perhaps the most serious Lawrentian vision ever penned by a woman of sexual love as the fundamental spring and power of life itself."

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