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Book at Bedtime: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Adjoa Andoh

Zora Neale Hurston

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Book at Bedtime: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Episode 2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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To Janie's horror, Nanny is determined to marry her off to the widower Logan Killicks.

To Janie's horror, Nanny is determined to marry her off to the widower Logan Killicks. But Janie is not interested in his 60 acres - at 16, she has dreams of 'kissing bees'.

Written by Zora Neale Hurston


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To Janie's horror, Nanny is determined to marry her off to the widower Logan Killicks, to protect her honour. But Janie isn't interested in his sixty acres. At sixteen years old, she has dreams of "kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world." And to her, Logan Killicks looks like "some ole skull head in de grave yard."

This African-American classic was first published in the 1930s and is seen as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. The author, Zora Neale Hurston, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in America. Nearly every black female writer of significance - including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker - acknowledges Zora Neale Hurston as her literary foremother.

"A rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive." Zadie Smith



Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.

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By Zora Neale Hurston. African-American classic, first published in the 1930s

By Zora Neale Hurston. African-American classic, first published in the 1930s, which tells Janie's story in dazzling Southern prose. Read by Adjoa Andoh

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