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A carregar... Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories (edição 1995)por Zora Neale Hurston (Autor), Cheryl A. Wall (Editor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I read this in graduate school for a class in African American literature. It was not one of my favorites. That I gave it two stars just means it was something I barely liked. To be honest, her folklore work is more interesting to read. The novel is considered a classic, so if you want to say you have read some classic works, this is one of them. ( ) The only work by Hurston I have read is Jonah's Gourd Vine, and I hope to read more of her work soon. Jonah's Gourd Vine is so POWERFUL! I admit I alternated sympathizing with and hating the protagonist John Pearson throughout the novel, and at times I wanted to give up on him, but I am so glad that I stayed with it. Hurston uses language beautifully to convey the inner lives of her characters. I am so impressed with her work. I highly recommend this novel. I am reading these one by one so will review the individual parts here as I go along: “Jonah’s Gourd Vine” (25 December 2011, LibraryThing Virago Group Secret Santa gift) Note: this is part of a volume of Collected Works (you can see in the photo: the blue book with white lines to the left of “Sun City”. I will be reading the individual novels within the volume interspersed with other books, as they are quite an intense read and I don’t want to gulp them all down too quickly) I have to admit that, when I opened this volume, I was a little intimidated by the dialect, but I was soon wrapped up in this engrossing story of a preacher and town councillor in an all-black Florida town, and his inevitable downfall and surprising redemption. Set a generation or two after slavery has ended, and examining the effects of this on both the black and white communities, this is a universal story in many ways, of one man’s weakness and his eventual destruction by it. But the specificity is fascinating, too: it is a journey into another world that isn’t so far in time and space from our own (part of the book is set in Alabama, where I have spent a little time), in some respects, and amazingly far in others. The dialect and general use of words is powerful and affecting. A fascinating book, and it’s not even supposed to be her best one! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Part of a two-volume set of works by Zora Neale Hurston, Novels and Stories features the acclaimed 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God-- plus Jonah's Gourd Vine, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and selected stories. Includes a newly researched chronology of Hurston's life, detailed notes, and a brief essay on the texts. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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