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Earliest Publication Date
1965
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HURSTON, Z.N.
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FICTION HURSTON, Z.N.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION HURSTON, Z.N.
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CD FICTION HURSTON, Z.N.
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Description
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....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2001
Description
"Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The power of the dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers--one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet--and of the woman and boy, a mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the...