Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (English) Paperback Book

Description: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison Into a white millionaires Caribbean mansion come- Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome. Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to his identity. . . . FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Into a white millionaires Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then theres Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fictionToni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together Bonnie Greer, Guardian Notes Backlist reissue, new to the Vintage imprint. Author Biography 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, Americas highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight. 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 dont 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 Morrisons writing is a train that knows where its 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 * Promotional Beautiful, funny, enormously moving-From the opening pages, I sat bolt upright, aware that I was in the presence of a major talent Mordecai Richler Kirkus US Review Morrisons fine-tuned, high-strung characters this time - black and white Americans caught up together in a "wide and breezy" house on a Caribbean island - may lack the psychic wingspread of Sula or Milkman of Song of Solomon. Yet within the swift of her dazzlingly mythic/animistic fancies, and dialogue sharp as drum raps, they carry her speculations - about black and white relationships and black female identity - as lightly as racing silks. Slim, trim, coolly witty Valerian Street, a retired white Philadelphia candy manufacturer partnered by querulous second wife Margaret (once "Maines Principal Beauty"), is the wily Prospero for his household of obligated attendants. The strange musics of the island, however, are heard better by the natives - like near-blind Theresa, who knows the islands slave legends. Somewhere in between are Valerians excellent, elderly black retainers: butler Sidney, starched by his old pride in being "one of the industrious Philadelphia Negroes"; and his wife, Ondine the cook, who nurses swollen feet and curses the Principal Beauty. And the crown of Sidney and Ondines lives is their stunning niece Jade, to whom Sidney serves food immaculately on silver trays as she dines with Valerian (who financed her superior education abroad). But this delicate assortment of nervous dependencies begins to shiver with the shattering arrival of Son, an unkempt American black man on the run, one of the "undocumented." Valerian, amused by the horror of the household, invites Son as a guest; once cleaned and beautiful, Son begins his courtship of Jade, a woman fearful of a devouring sexuality and a black affirmation. And then, at Christmas dinner, the six of this unlikely peaceable kingdom sit down together only to writhe in a lavaslide of raw, inter-locked revelation and ancient rage. Result: Jade and Son flee to the States, where she - an educated, restless city woman - has a future, while he has only a past: woman-cosseted, woman-dominating. She says: "Mama-spoiled black man, will you mature with me?" He says: "Culture-bearing black woman, whose culture are you bearing?" They try to rescue each other, but their lives cannot mesh: Jade will be a worker, a neuter, rejecting nurturing and heading for Paris; grieving Son will be led by Theresa to a ghostly liberation. Scouring contemporary insights - in prose as lithe and potent as vines in a rain forest. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text Wonderful... A triumph Review Quote Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics dont seem to come close to explaining her Promotional "Headline" Beautiful, funny, enormously moving... From the opening pages, I sat bolt upright, aware that I was in the presence of a major talent Mordecai Richler Details ISBN0099760215 Author Toni Morrison Year 1997 ISBN-10 0099760215 ISBN-13 9780099760214 Format Paperback Publication Date 1997-11-06 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Language English Short Title TAR BABY Residence US Birth 1931 Publisher Vintage Publishing Pages 336 UK Release Date 1997-11-06 AU Release Date 1997-11-06 NZ Release Date 1997-11-06 Audience General Alternative 9781448105038 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1124862;

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