Jonah's Gourd Vine
INTRODUCED BY JESMYN WARD'One of the greatest writers of our time' Toni MorrisonBorn on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, strikes out alone. Gaining an education and the love of Lucy Potts, he seems to have left his shoeless days behind. But unable to resist the lure of women or a fight, he's forced to flee town or face life on the chain gang.Finding himself in Sanford, Florida, John discovers a talent for preaching and becomes pastor of Zion Hope Church. He rouses his congregation's fervour with powerful sermons and people come from far to hear him. With John's charisma and Lucy's quiet wisdom, the family i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-01222-3
- EAN: 9780349012223
- Produktnummer: 28238333
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H12.7 cm x B19.7 cm x D2.1 cm 194 g
- Gewicht: 194
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Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: 'Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South.'
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