She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the
alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the
panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all
came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old 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 she finally meets the man of her dreams - who offers not
diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds. '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
Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in
May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire
from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter;
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by
Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West;
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by
Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by
Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces
in the Water by Janet Frame
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