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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by Ruby Dee
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Start Listening- Publisher:
- HarperAudio
- Released:
- Oct 31, 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780060842765
- Format:
- Audiobook
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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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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by Ruby Dee
Editor's Note
Description
"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.
- Publisher:
- HarperAudio
- Released:
- Oct 31, 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780060842765
- Format:
- Audiobook
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4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐
However, this is a story that celebrates community, rural living, family and, most of all, a woman choosing her own path in a day when she was still considered the property of her husband. This strong-willed woman could have been any color, but her being black added to the story, as opposed to shaping or forming the foundation of the story.
The writing here is intelligent, lyrical and absolutely beautiful. It has insight, daring, courage and transports the reader in time. I was in the Everglades. I was on that store porch. I was in the big house. And I was on the dusty road, looking toward my next destination. Hurston was a writer...an author...and you should read this book simply because it is American literature at its finest.
In truth though, the book was about the way that people despise each other and are jealous of each other and are quick to blame each other and quick to speak against each other when they don’t even know the truth.