Their Eyes Were Watching God : The essential American classic with an introduction by Zadie Smith

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 23 January 1986 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vmc' series.

Paperback | 256 pages
196 x 127mm | 240g

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN 'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON 'Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU'There is no novel I love more' ZADIE SMITHWhen, at sixteen, Janie 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.