Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0060838671 / Publisher: Amistad, January 2006
When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.
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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 SmithOne 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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