Summary
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise.
Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099768210 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099768216 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian *
Morrison is an extraordinary novelist * New York Times *
We don’t know quite how Toni Morrison does what she does, but we do know we are left shaken as readers and, to a profound degree, changed * Washington Post *
Morrison has brought it all together: the poetry, the emotion, the broad symbolic plan * New York Times Book Review *
It is a tour de force of writing * Independent on Sunday *
Entrancing * Guardian *
Deeply serious and unexpectedly beautiful * Harpers and Queen *
Compassionate, violent and magical * Good Book Guide *
About The Author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
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