Summary
The unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved.
Into a white millionaire’s Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son. Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between black and white people, masters and servants, and men and women.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877271 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Wonderful… A triumph * New York Times *
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 *
Deeply perceptive…Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel * New York Times Book Review *
Toni Morrison’s writing is a train that knows where it’s going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description * Sunday Times *
Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability * New York Times *
It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships * Vogue *
Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language…One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’ s story * Washington Post *
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose-She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer * Guardian *
That rare commodity, a truly public novel… Morrison’ s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates * Newsweek *
Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking * St Louis Globe-Democrat *
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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