Jonah's Gourd Vine (VMC) - Softcover
John Pearson begins in poverty, south of Big Creek, yet achieves some schooling, a job and marriage to Lucy. But his persuasive fists and ready tongue can still get him into trouble. Escaping the vigilants, he goes to Sandford, Florida an all-black town, and sends for Lucy and the children.
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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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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0860689344
- ISBN 13 9780860689348
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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