- African Americans, Fiction, American literature
Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a living exultation" of a young man who loves too many women for his own good.
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Classical in form, earnest, prestige and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Wildside Press, LLC, HarperCollins (paper), HarperCollins
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060916510
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“God was grumbling his thunder and playing the zig-zag lightning thru his fingers.”
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
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