Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones 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 'One of the greatest
writers of our time' Toni Morrison
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