Their eyes were watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale2007
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At the age of 16, Janie is caught kissing the shiftless Johnny Taylor, so her grandmother quickly marries her off to an old man with 60 acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams. When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds ...'For me, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more' Zadie Smith
Main title:
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston.
Author:
Edition:
[New ed.] / introduced by Zadie Smith /and with an afterword by Sherley Anne Williams.
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2007.
Collation:
xxiv, 272 p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Virago modern classics ; 199
ISBN:
9780860685241 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.52BLA
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
234655