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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God Cover

ISBN13: 9780060916503
ISBN10: 0060916508
Condition: Standard
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200).

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Felicity, July 9, 2009 (view all comments by Felicity)
I found this a quick read, once I'd had a few pages to soak into the dialect. I enjoyed the frame, which placed the narrative firmly in a storytelling tradition, and gave enough clues about Janie's eventful life that the reader could quickly realize it was the life, not the events themselves, that mattered.

The dialogue throughout the book is spritely, marked by inventive habits of wordplay, and the narrative itself is often beautiful, evocative, and skeweringly apt. I love the recurring images that pervade it, like bright threads glinting throughout the fabric.

It's short, and much of its character work is expertly begun early and tied off neatly at the end, although there are some episodes that I still found enigmatic. It raises knotty issues of colorism, beauty, self-esteem and self-definition, and succeeds as a bildungsroman all these years and bildungsromans later.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060916503
Subtitle:
(a novel )
Author:
Hurston, Zora Neale
Publisher:
Perennial Library
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Self-realization
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Epic literature
Subject:
Allegories
Subject:
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Subject:
African-American women
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Perennial Library ed.
Series Volume:
125.
Publication Date:
1990
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xiv, 207 p.

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