Their Eyes Were Watching God RI

US: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1990. Paperback. Good. Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." -- Saturday Review Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford set s out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. J anie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a jour ney back to her roots. A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates th e big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for thos e 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.