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Book at Bedtime: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Episode 6

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Episode 6

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Janie and Joe have hit middle age, and the cracks in their relationship are growing.

Janie has noticed that Joe is getting older, but the older he gets, the more he criticises her for being middle-aged. Then one day she turns on him.

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston


Episode 6


Janie has noticed that Joe is getting older but the older he gets the more he criticises her for being middle aged. Then one day she turns on him in front of the customers in the store and the pride of the Mayor of Eatonville is irrevocably damaged.

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

A 1930s African-American classic which tells Janie's story in dazzling Southern prose

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 woman 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.

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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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